Verizon Widens Its Broadband Speed Advantage on the Company’s Industry-Leading Fiber-to-the-Premises Network

Verizon Widens Its Broadband Speed Advantage on the Company’s Industry-Leading Fiber-to-the-Premises Network

Verizon will widen its broadband speed advantage over other telecom and cable TV companies by installing equipment from Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs that will dramatically increase speeds on the company’s fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.

Later this year, Verizon will begin deploying the Alcatel equipment first, to be followed by Motorola and Tellabs. This is subject to finalizing definitive agreements. Initially, the new equipment will be capable of increasing broadband speeds by up to four times downstream to the customer’s home and by up to eight times upstream back to the Internet on Verizon’s FTTP network.

The company announced today that equipment from the three suppliers will support what is known as a Gigabit Passive Optical Network, or G-PON. Verizon will begin installing the Alcatel equipment first in company central-switching offices and in new installations of direct fiber-optic links terminating at a customer’s home. Deployment of the Motorola and Tellabs equipment will follow. Both of those companies today supply electronic equipment for the current technology being deployed in Verizon’s 16-state FTTP network, known as B-PON or Broadband Passive Optical Network.

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