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UK ISP Trials BT Openreach's Gfast British ISP Cerberus Networks is trialing BT Openreach's Gfast technology to provide affordable high-speed Internet services to business customers. The provider now offers downstream speeds of up to 330 Mbp/s fiber-to-the-premise (with 30 Mbp/s upstream) via BT optical fiber. The service is currently in "advanced stage trial," Cerberus said in a news release. In addition to faster speeds and pricing of about £67 plus tax (about $88), Cerberus can deploy this solution much faster than alternate approaches since Gfast leverages existing copper wire. Under the trial program, BT Openreach installs the service on-premises and provides modems to customers, who then connect their own router to the Ethernet socket, wrote Michael Rudge, a consultant at Cerberus in a blog. "In the early days of FTTC this was also engineer-installed with a BT provided modem," he said. "Gfast is pretty much the identical experience. Like FTTC, it is expected that in time self-install options will be available using third party modem/routers and plugin microfilters and will not require a BT Openreach visit." Related posts:
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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