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Gfast Comes of Age: Heavy Reading ReportAdvances in Gfast chipsets will empower operators to roll out gigabit services in 2018 and 2019 without installing fiber over the last 100 meters into the customer premises, a new Heavy Reading report finds. Already being deployed or investigated by a growing number of service providers -- including BT, Deutsche Telekom and Hawaiian Telecom -- Gfast will garner even more traction, wrote Simon Stanley, Heavy Reading analyst-at-large in "Gfast Rollout Starts With Amendment 3 Chipsets." "The latest Gfast chipsets, supporting Amendment 3 functionality, are offering a mature solution for gigabit broadband that is re-igniting the copper-versus-fiber debate," Stanley wrote in a blog post on Light Reading. Find out more about Amendment 3 and what's driving Gfast demand by going to Simon Stanley's full column on Light Reading.
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