US-based Adtran has announced that Australia’s TPG Telecom Group is leveraging the vendor’s second-generation G.fast fiber extension portfolio to upgrade existing broadband services to gigabit speeds and attract new subscribers. In a press release regarding the matter, Adtran said it is enabling TPG to roll out gigabit broadband services to more than 230,000 premises and over 2,000 buildings across Eastern Australia, with its G.fast fibre extension solution reportedly making it easier for the operator to connect hard-to-reach urban and rural locations with services capable of gigabit downlink speeds by using existing in-building copper or coax wiring.
Adtran’s unique, patented G.fast VDSL coexistence technology reportedly enables G.fast-based services to uniquely support the delivery of symmetric and asymmetric gigabit speeds even when delivered in coexistence with legacy VDSL2 services. As a result, TPG can reportedly rapidly upgrade DSL subscriptions to a gigabit service while allowing other subscriptions on that older technology to continue using it.
Commenting, Jonathan Rutherford, Group Executive, Wholesale, Enterprise and Government at TPG Telecom Group, said: ‘The launch of G.fast has helped us offer some of the fastest broadband speeds available in Australia today and will be a game-changer for TPG’s wholesale business and customers … We’ve been proud to work with Adtran—it has overcome global component supply constraints to ensure we were able to quickly and efficiently roll out this new technology.’
