{"id":79913,"date":"2015-08-12T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79913"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:31:13","slug":"80gbps-fire-to-the-home-will-soon-be-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/79913-80gbps-fire-to-the-home-will-soon-be-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"80Gbps fire-to-the-home will soon be a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US telecommunications company Verizon has successfully completed tests on its new\u00a0super-fast fiber optic network \u2013 which involved\u00a0a 10Gbps trial by one of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>The new system uses\u00a0an optical line terminal capable of generating four wavelengths of light, each able to transmit at 10Gbps down and 2.5Gbps up, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/08\/11\/verizon-tests-new-fiber-system-that-hits-10-gbps-speeds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the trial, Verizon said the technology will allow it to deliver speeds of between\u00a010Gbps to 80Gbps to its users in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The new system also includes built-in redundancy, which allows for the four wavelengths to work independently should equipment failure occur.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon will start\u00a0issuing requests for proposals for the hardware and software needed to upgrade\u00a0to its new fibre service later in 2015. No pricing has been set as yet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDCt2OJHdEs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To help you get your head around the absurdity that is an 80Gbps connection, South Africa\u2019s largest videogaming expo, rAge, <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/134472-telkom-1gbps-direct-internet-service-for-rage-2015.html\" target=\"_blank\">will make use of a 1Gbps connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s quite a comparison when you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the entire rAge LAN, all of the booths and everything in-between will only need a single gigabit connection to function.<\/p>\n<p>The 1Gbps line, by the way, comes courtesy of Telkom\u2019s Direct Internet Service.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s DIS package means no contention whatsoever, a 1:1 (or guaranteed throughput) connection.<\/p>\n<p>No contention makes a relatively large difference in the sort of speeds and uptime you get from any particular line. Although with 80Gbps, contention isn\u2019t likely going to matter much at all.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Written in collaboration with an article that originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/fibre\/134842-80gbps-fibre-to-the-home-is-coming.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>For the moment, this is all we&#8217;ve got<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/79679-most-affordable-capped-adsl-data-bundles.html\">Most affordable capped ADSL data bundles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/79283-heres-how-to-fix-slow-adsl-connections.html\">Here\u2019s how to fix slow ADSL connections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/79223-telkom-vs-mweb-capped-ftth-pricing-face-off.html\">Telkom vs. MWEB: capped FTTH pricing face-off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought 100Mbps was fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":79915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[15257,15259,13980,2674,15263,15265,15261,12884,2932,2378,1969,2802],"class_list":["post-79913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-1gbps","tag-80gbps","tag-bandwidth","tag-broadband-1","tag-direct-internet-service","tag-dis","tag-fibre-optics","tag-fibre-to-the-home","tag-ftth","tag-internet","tag-news-2","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}