The new 2.5Gbps product is being made available to CityFibre’s ISP customers on a rolling basis, starting in the most mature XGS-PON deployment areas before reaching all homes served by the XGS-PON platform in the coming months.
The new platform is capable of supporting symmetrical speeds of up to 10Gbps and is designed to be easily upgraded to 50G PON.
By the end of 2023, CityFibre expects to have deployed its XGS-PON equipment into over 90 per cent of its fibre exchanges. That should make the new 2.5Gbps product available to around 20 per cent of CityFibre’s ready for service footprint, currently standing at 2.5m homes.
Greg Mesch, CEO, CityFibre, said, “With the launch of the UK’s fastest and most cost-effective connectivity products, we are demonstrating the benefits of infrastructure competition and raising the bar for all wholesale networks. Ubiquitous, high-quality, low-carbon connectivity is the keystone of all advanced and community-wide applications of the future.
“By working with our ISP partners to bring symmetrical multi-gigabit broadband consumer services to market today, with businesses to follow, the UK will finally have a network and services that will enable our future, rather than holding it back.”
Multi-gig speeds will also be available for homes where CityFibre’s network is yet to be upgraded to XGS-PON. This will be achieved via a 2Gbps/1Gbps asymmetric GPON product that CityFibre plans to launch in the coming months. These services will ultimately be migrated to the XGS-PON platform when available.