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The ITS Technology Group, which has built various open access full fibre broadband and Ethernet networks (“Faster Britain“) across urban parts of the UK for businesses and ISPs, today claims to have “become the first UK provider” to successfully trial the delivery of dedicated internet access services over 50G PON broadband tech (both in the lab and via a live business environment).
The claim is somewhat debatable, since Openreach recently conducted its own test of the 50Gbps (Gigabits per second) capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology with Nokia (here), which connected to a residential property in Ipswich (Suffolk, England). Similarly, Ogi are working toward a similar trial of 50G PON in Wales (here), while Netomnia are working with Adtran to conduct a commercial launch (here), but this has faced delays.
In the case of ITS Technology, the new trial was conducted with Nelson-based Limitless Digital Group and is the first of “several planned tests” across the UK. ITS said they’re building a bank of scalable, real-world use cases to support the roll-out of 50G-PON and shape how next-gen networks are adopted by enterprise, public sector, infrastructure partners, and smart city developers.
During the trial the ITS team observed 50G-PON speeds of 41.8Gbps downstream and 19.2Gbps upstream. This was while using combi-optics to deliver GPON and XGS-PON services, allowing ITS to deliver 50G-PON leased line services over existing networks without disruption to service.
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