American telecommunications company Verizon has successfully completed the world's first field trial of an advanced fiber-optic transmission technology known as XG-PON2 and capable of delivering a 10 Gbps (gigabits per second) broadband connection both downstream and upstream.
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Verizon is charting new territory with the field trial of this 10/10 Gbps system, with the XG-PON2 technology setting new speeds records. However, the work on the ITU-T standard for the technology, including the wavelength plan, will begin only after the XG-PON1 standards are all ratified, which is expected later this year.
The team tested the continuous transfer of 2 gigabyte files from 20 concurrent clients using a commercial Web-server application. The files were transferred both upstream and downstream, simulating what a business customer would experience when 20 employees are performing concurrent file transfers to and from remote locations.
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