Verizon prepares next-gen 100 Mbit broadband
The end of your slow DSL or cable internet connection is getting more and more real. At least if you live in the USA. Verizon announced on Thursday that it has chosen Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs to provide equipment based on the latest fiber-to-the-home standard called gigabit passive optical network, or GPON. Passive optical network technology, or PON, is an optical-access system that lets multiple homes or businesses in a neighborhood share fiber from a service provider’s central office. The most widely used PON standard today is broadband passive optical networks or BPON, which splits 622Mbps (megabits per second) of downstream bandwidth and 155Mbps of upstream bandwidth among 32 homes or businesses.
By contrast, GPON allows Verizon to split 2.4Gbps (gigabits per second) of capacity downstream and 1.2Gbps of capacity upstream among 32 homes or business. This boost in speed should help Verizon eventually offer consumers up to 100Mbps downloads into their homes, the company said. Today, the carrier typically offers services of 5Mbps, 15Mbps and 30Mbps. In some locations, it offers 50Mbps. As of 2005, the fiber network was available to 3 million homes and businesses. The company is on track to make it available to another 3 million by the end of 2006. Damn, I want this too! Or no, I got a better idea: move to Korea or Japan, they got 100/100 there for $25. Jesus 
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I live in the UK, when are we getting GPON or PON put in? Those speeds are sweet
not to brag, but sweden has had 100/100 for a long time now, only 20-40 euros/month.
I heard that swedish ISP LAB2 (www.lab2.se) launched 1000/1000 somewhere in sweden, and yes for private homes.
about time the rest of the world caught up ^^
sry, thats LABS2 (www.labs2.se)
I’m thinking its going to be real expensive, but just how expensive? is there any price mentioned ??
I think you have to think more about what you download. Having a speed like this is sure to make you want to download more and more.
I know if i had it, i would be scared about the ISP keeping tabs on what i download. Least i know with the connection i have now that they doesnt give a crap what i do.
Just wait for everybody to have it, then you’ll be one of millions.
That’s not very good. I live in sweden and we get 100mbit for ourselves, doesn’t cost much at all and we don’t have to share with other people. Sweden were first in the world with 100mb/s and in the beginning of next year we’ll be first in the world with 1gb/s, and it’s for private persons, in other words you get it all to yourself. And the cost for the GB broadband will be 849 SEK which is about 60 USD or so. And we’re also getting 100mbit connections for cellphones which will be free to use.
It’s going to be awesome!
in Poland LAN512kb/s (0,5mb/s) costs ~20$ :/
here in aust, you’d be lucky to find a cheapish unlimited plan, but i found the cheapest (and probly only one here) 512/128 kb/s for $70 a month!…we are so far behind in technology here..
heheheheheheh
ma spirit is very high now
i live in egypt
i have a 3mb adsl connection for about 15 euro per month (1 euro=7L.E) and am going to upgrade to the trubo line which is 6 mb
for 25 euro per month
this is a good technology with a nice price in a country like egypt
compared to the world prices in countries like aus and germany
Well in the UK we are getting 21CN. The most advanced telephone and broadband network in the world.
you think?
sweden was always first…
They have no sun, so they need fast internet.
Uk will never win !!!!
lol P:
we have sun!
now it is 35*C every day.. and the water is 25-30*C.
its lucky for me that i have AC*( 20*C in this room )so i can sit here with my computer.
lol yeah but its sweden only thing worth mentioning about sweden is the ganja rules oh wait there are none
Trust me 21CN will piss on your bonfire and also eat all the burgers on your barbecue. All you base are belong to us.
512/128 adsl in greece for 27-30 euros + some garbage costs just for having the phone line by OTE (telecom) (taxes and whatnot approx. 40 euros every two months, regardless if you even use the phone, or OTE’s phone service.) prices have dropped recently I used to pay 45 euros a year or so ago for a 384/128, and they’ll probably drop more soon and/or increase the speed. ADSL2+ is still far out there tho’ they just strted pilot programs for it, which most likely means I’ll be getting it in 3-4 years
Thats it! i am moving to sweden!
Then again… most home users just download stuff into their harddrives. And how fast can these devices write? Mine goes like 5MB/s, which is 40mbit. Sure, get 2 SATA drives in RAID (0?), but still… how much faster do you want?
I live in Romania, where I pay 10$ for a bandwidth of 24KB/s (192kbit) down, and about 24 up.
one reason they might be so far ahead in sweden is that the population is not so big (mostly concentrated in the south) and that makes it easyer to provide a faster line to homes compared to what it will be to uk or us with far far bigger population. Also consider that in the uk (where i’m at the moment) but aswell in other eu countryes (where i’ve been in the past) providers tend to milk the cow for as long as they can offering a service that is lower than their capabilities to than come out with this big news that will cost twice as much and is just a little better than what they were offering to you just 5 minutes ago. The clear example of this are the upgrades from 1Mbit to 2Mbit than 4Mbit to go to 8Mbit and so on.
@18 raicuandi: you pay $10 for 192kbit?
I’m in Romania too, and I pay $15 for 4Mbps down and 2Mbps up. That’s 512KB/s download and 256KB/s upload.