Broadband speeds over copper are improving

Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm – Bell Labs, has announced a prototype technology that enables copper lines to deliver 1 Gigabits per second symmetrical (simultaneous download and upload) broadband speeds. It also, perhaps with a press release in mind, demonstrated 10 Gbps over two pairs of copper lines.
The new technology is called “XG-FAST”, which is an extension of G.fast technology so significant that all the letters have to be capitalised. The G.fast standard is in the process of

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