How fast can fibre broadband go?

How fast can fibre broadband go?
When there are fibres running through city and town streets, upgrading to a faster broadband technology is a matter of swapping the equipment at each end of a line. (Image: Getty)
Bill Bennett for Chorus
In May, Chorus network strategy manager Kurt Rodgers showed a laptop downloading data from an internet server at 21.4 gigabits per second. It was the southern hemisphere’s first demonstration of a fibre broadband technology from Nokia known as 25G Pon (passive optical network). Only a handful of other fibre companies in the world have tested this technology. In fact, 25G Pon is so new and fast that Rodgers struggled to find equipment capable of benchmarking the demonstration. Conventional broadband measuring tools don’t de...

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