Senior Nokia executive talks up copper’s ongoing role in Australia’s ‘mixed technology’ National Broadband Network.
According to online technology media site, Delimiter, Managing Director of Nokia Oceania, Ray Owen, told the audience at the recent CommsDay Summit that Nokia is“very proud” of its work on the NBN”
“We are firm believers in the national benefits,” he was quoted as saying.
“The key, he continued, is flexibility in the choice of technologies and means of deployment “to suit market conditions and demands”.
Nokia calls this approach ‘fibre to the most economic point’. While that does include fibre to the premises (FTTP), it also recognises the “extraordinary innovation pathway now maturing in the copper network domain”, Owen said.
These innovations include technologies like VDSL Vectoring, G.Fast and XG-Fast, and deployment options like FTTN, FTTB and FTTdp (also called DPU).
In conjunction with Deutsche Telekom, Nokia recently demonstrated that XG-Fast, the “latest innovation” in the copper-based technology suite can provide a data throughput capability of more than 8Gbps over a 50m copper line.
This “fibre-like” speed is much faster than that currently experienced in the average residential broadband connection.
However, such capabilities are a “future consideration”, said Owen, “Right now we’re focused on delivering NBN’s present needs.”
He went on to announce that, following the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia will continue to support NBN’s VDSL2 Vectoring needs as it transitions to the full-scale mass deployment stage for its FTTN and FTTB deployments.”
Full article: https://delimiter.com.au/2016/04/08/extraordinary-innovation-happening-copper-broadband-says-nokia-chief/