Verizon Demos 10G PON
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, December 21, 2009 · 
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Verizon announced last week that it successfully field-tested a passive optical network system known as XG-PON that can transmit data at 10 Gbps downstream and 2.4 Gbps upstream, four times as fast as the current top transmission speeds supporting the company’s all-fiber FiOS network.
The XG-PON signal was tested independently on a dedicated passive optical network (PON) as well as overlaid on a fiber providing FiOS service to a customer.
Until now, next-generation PON technology has been tried only in demonstrations and lab trials. Final technical standards for global design and deployment aren’t expected until mid 2010.
“From the earliest stages of the FiOS design, we knew we could repeatedly and progressively leverage the immense capacity of fiber to carry more and more data in support of customer applications,” said Mark Wegleitner, senior vice president of technology for Verizon. “Now we’re already working on the best way to take the next leap forward in capacity.”
View the release.
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