Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service

Google Fiber plans to upgrade some users to 20Gbps service by the end of the year. Ars Technica records: Google’s Wednesday blog post calls this component of a “GFiber Labs” experiment and states the service “will initially be available as an early access offering to a small group of GFiber customers in select areas.” The 20Gbps service is implemented by brand-new networking equipment: Nokia’s 25G PON (passive optical network) modern technology, which allows Internet company press even more transmission capacity over existing fiber lines. Google states it’s “one of the first” ISPs to embrace the modern technology for customers, however a minimum of another United States ISP, the Tennessee service provider “EPB,” has actually turned out the modern technology. Customers will certainly require brand-new networking equipment, also, and Google states you’ll obtain a brand-new fiber modem with integrated Wi-Fi 7.

Fierce Telecom talked to Google’s Nick Saporito, head of …