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Sckipio Unveil 1Gbps Symmetric “Virtual Fibre” G.fast Broadband Tech

Israel-based Sckipio, which helped to create some of the kit that BT has used in their UK trials of 330Mbps capable hybrid-fibre G.fast (ITU G.9700/9701) broadband, has today launched three new technologies that they hope will make the connectivity method more useful.

G.fast works in a roughly similar way to the current Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) service that is already available across most of the UK, where a fibre optic cable is run from an exchange to your local Street Cabinet and then the remaining copper line to your home uses VDSL2 to deliver the service.

However Openreach (BT) intends to deploy the G.fast service from extension pods on the side of existing PCP street cabinets, although it could later be deployed from smaller remote distribution nodes that would be installed on top of telegraph poles, under manholes or inside buildings etc.