Verizon tests ultra-fast Internet in Mass. that’s faster than Google Fiber

Scaling up to meet demand is a simple matter of adding new colors of light onto the existing fiber with each new color tacking on an additional 10Gbps of bandwidth, he added.

One may wonder as to why the users need 10 Gbps of Internet speed; after all, a few Mbps speed is enough to keep most users satisfied.

The new system also includes built-in redundancy, which allows for the four wavelengths to work independently should equipment failure occur.

Verizon said that based upon the success of its tests it will issue an RFP for NG-PON2 technology later this year. No pricing has been set as yet.

It looks like Verizon is working hard on a new kind of broadband technology so that consumers will be able to enjoy faster speeds on the Internet – which is something that everyone would definitely want, for sure.

“Upgrades on the FTTP network will begin when commercial equipment is available to support business services such as switched Ethernet services”, Verizon said in a press release. Each new color beefs up the capacity by up to 10 Gbps. The telecom’s wireless service NG-PON2 could use Cisco hardware to download songs or movies 100 times faster than average broadband connections, and provide up to 80 GB per second via fiber optics.

In fact, Verizon has completed a test of the technology on its fiber-to-the-premises network from its central office in Framingham, Mass., to a FiOS customer’s home 3 miles away as well as to a nearby business location.

The technology will have the system capacity to grow to 40-80 gigabits per second as the market demands, according to Lee Hicks, vice president of network technology for Verizon.

The field trial, the telco said, validated an important service reliability feature of NG-PON2 – it simulated a fault in the central office equipment, but the ONT restored its own 10G service “in seconds” by autonomously tuning to another wavelength. It will also be nice to have these data speeds as things like videos become heavier with the advent of 4K, and, eventually, 8K video technology.