Does anyone know if and when AT&T plans to offer Gigapower with the same or better fiber optic technologies that Google Fiber does?
I've been reading that Google Fiber has superior hybrid WDM-PON technologies that enables customers to get consistent, stable 900 Mbps to 1 Gbps speeds all over America (and perhaps overseas). I read on various forums that AT&T Gigapower uses older GPON technologies that DON'T have the consistent, stable 900 Mbps to 1 Gbps speeds all over America (and perhaps overseas).
I think these pdf reports from Google are from 2012 so I suspect that WDM-PON technologies are "ready for primetime" in 2016.
"High Performance, Low Cost, Colorless ONU for WDM-PON"
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/37746.pdf
"FTTH Look Ahead - Technologies & Architectures"
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36936.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network#WDM-PON
AT&T better be building their networks right with future upgrades in mind. They better have an answer for Time Warner when they start offering full duplex DOCSIS 3.1 that might be able to do 10 Gbps in the future ... over coax cables?
"Full Duplex DOCSIS® 3.1 Technology"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7Zhc0WMTU
To be on the safe side, AT&T better be planning for a bandwidth "arms race" where they can do 100 Gbps over their fiber optic infrastructure using next generation PON (NG-PON2). They gotta stay a step ahead of the competition like we've seen with PC processors, RAM, SSDs and so forth.
"Introduction to Next Generation PON with Geoff Burke"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNB47EDpyS0
"Access the Gigabit future with PON"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Dh67fHmyo
↧