Wind records 1Gbps speeds in fibre-optic network pilot

News Broadband Greece 31 MAY 2017
Wind records 1Gbps speeds in fibre-optic network pilot
Greek operator Wind Hellas announced that it recorded speeds of up to 1Gbps during the company's pilot of a fibre-optic network in the municipalities of Kalamata and Nea Smyrni. The network in the two cities covers a total of 3,500 lines and 277 homes. The construction of the fibre pilot networks lasted about one year. Over a period of five months, 100 users tested the capabilities of the new infrastructure.

In the construction of the pilot networks, Wind's Network Division tested three different fibre technologies, FttC, FttB and FttH. Speeds of 50 to 200/300+ Mbps were reached in the first scenario using VDSL vectoring, vplus and G.fast technology. Wind reached 300 Mbps to up to 800 Mbps with G.fast in the FttB test and up to 1 Gbps using FttH.

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Fixed

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Wind Hellas

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Greece

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Network equipment, Fibre, Internet Access, Consumer

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