XG-FAST: The 5th Generation Broadband
17 December 2015
Traditionally, copper network operators complement a fiber-to-the-home strategy with a hybrid fiber-copper deployment in which fiber is gradually brought closer to the consumer, and digital subscriber line technology is used for the remaining copper network. The authors propose the system concepts of XG-FAST, the 5th generation broadband (5GBB) technology capable of delivering a 10 Gb/s data rate over short copper pairs.
