Australia's NBN trials multiple PON technologies over a live fiber network
The latest NBN trial shows how operators can easily enhance 10G PON to symmetrical 25G PON and eventually evolve to 50G PON or 100G using the same passive and active fiber components.
NBN, Australia's government-owned wholesale broadband provider, has successfully trialed multiple next-generation PON (passive optical network) technologies at its FTTP exchange station in Sydney – delivering 10G, 25G, 50G and 100G broadband speeds over its existing fiber network.
According to NBN, this is the first time the prototype technology has been employed in the ''real world" outside of a lab setting.
Using Nokia's Lightspan MF fiber access platform, the company claimed to be the first in the world to achieve a maximum wholesale download speed of 83 Gbits/s on a live fiber access network.