Currently, the fastest speeds available to consumers top out around 1 gigabit, and even these speeds are only scantly available in the UK.
The ‘25G PON’ technology can deliver download speeds of 25 gigabits per second over a single optical fibre, and it can run on the same underlying infrastructure that Openreach is already building across the UK.
This means the technology could be rolled out relatively easily and quickly allowing consumers and businesses to upgrade without disruption.
While the technology has been tested at Openreach’s Adastral Park lab in Ipswich, Nokia and Openreach plan to launch a field trial by the end of 2021 that will more clearly demonstrate how easily it can be integrated into current infrastructure.
The trial will put the technology through its paces using a range of bandwidth-hungry applications.
Nokia expects 25G speeds to be used by operators to extend their Full Fibre networks beyond residential use into enterprises. The...