Andre Yoskowitz
18 Aug 2010 2:04
Verizon has reported the results of a fiber-optic network trial they held in June for one lucky customer in Massachusetts, and it appears the customer received almost 1Gbit/sec speeds.
CW says "the customer received 925Mbit/sec. throughput to a server at its business location from a Verizon central office less than two miles away."
Speeds as high as 800Mbit/sec were achieved for servers 400 miles away.
Earlier in the year, Google said it wanted to experiment with a 1Gbit fiber connection trial for up to 500,000 lucky customers in a community. 1,100 communities submitted bids, with one city even temporarily changing its name to "Google." Google says it will pick a location by the end of the year.
When asked about the Google network, Verizon said: "We are not competing with things [Google is] planning. They may be thinking about competing with things we already have. We have the network in place today."
Verizon's GPON platform can hit downstream speeds of 2.4Gbit/sec and upstream speeds of 1.2Gbit/sec.