 MEDIA ADVISORY –Technicolor's Karel Adriaensen Explains Why Gigabit Services Over Copper to the Home Are Now Ready for Prime TimeTechnicolor Participating in G.fast Interoperability Demonstration at Broadband World Forum 2016
By: Technicolor 
Karel Adriaensen, Technicolor Technicolor is one of four companies participating in the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), multi-vendor G.fast interoperability demonstration during the course of the conference. Karel Adriaensen, Director of Product Management at Technicolor, explains why G.fast technology is increasingly attractive to service providers and reveals that it is already being deployed -- in stealth mode -- ready to be turned on and start delivering gigabit services to hundreds of thousands of users in 2017. Adriaensen says service providers today face increasing demand for high access bandwidth from end users who want access to higher quality video and immersive experiences. To meet this demand, service providers are deploying fiber and other high-capacity backbone infrastructure technologies. The challenge, however, is the final segment of infrastructure to the home. "The most difficult and the most expensive part of fiber deployments is the last few meters before you reach the individual user's living unit," he says. "That is where G.fast comes in, because you can use if over the last few meters of the existing copper. Service providers can run fiber until the last few meters, and then switch over to G.fast. This allows operators to deliver an end-to-end one gigabit service at a much reduced cost." Adriaensen says G.fast is now ready for large-scale commercial deployment. "Standardization is complete, chipsets are available, operators are evaluating it and the first sizeable commercial deployments are expected to start in 2017." In fact, Adriaensen says, G.fast is already being deployed at scale, but it's being kept under wraps. "A tier one operator is deploying a new high-end gateway from Technicolor with G.fast integrated. Several hundred thousand of those gateways will be deployed around that operator's country, but G.fast will not be enabled until later in 2017. When the operator has sufficient G.fast gateways deployed G.fast capability will be turned on to offer commercial services." For access to the full audio interview with Adriaensen, visit: https://www.dropbox.com/ To read the full Q&A interview with Adriaensen, and to see other perspectives on technology developments that are changing the way people live their digital lives, visit: http://thefuturetrust.technicolor.com/ Journalists and analysts are free to pull quotes from this Q&A feature with attribution in media and market reports. For more details and context, contact: Lane Cooper 323 817 7547 Lane.cooper@ Photo: https://www.prlog.org/ End
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