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2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gentlemen-start-your-envy dept.

Erick Lionheart at www.gamersloot.net writes "Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"

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  1. Re:And look here: by jakarta-milwaukee · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to make you feel better: here in Indonesia we pay $60 for a 128 kbps cable modem connection.

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  2. Quick Handmade Translation.... by Gobelet · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's not well translated, as I just woke up...

    FT : Testing Optic Fiber

    Published on 07/25/2006 à 3:11:57PM by Sylvestre Mardont
    Source : Presence PC

    In a France Telecom press release, we learn that the company launched an experiment with optic fibers (Fiber To The Home). This experiment is driven in several Parisian districts, and in 5 cities in Hauts-de-Seine.

    A technological breakthrough...

    This offer is made for a hundred clients, and uses GPON technology - without any active equipment, like a router for example. According to France Télécom, this technology could allow bitrates of 2,5 Gbps (400 MBps) (downstream) and 1,2 Gbps (150 MBps) (upstream).
    The experiment costs 70 euros a month, and is offered with free unlimited phone calls, and digital TV.
     
    ...but is it useful?

    If such bitrates are definitely interesting, they still are utterly useless, since SATA II for hard drives tops at 3 Gbps in the best cases. We will have to see the results of the experiment, and the commercial offer coming from it, the heavy deployment of FTTH being planned for 2007/2008 by France Telecom
  3. Re:offering 2.5 Gb/s... by justaphoneguy · · Score: 5, Informative

    GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and 1.2 Gb/s upstream, shared among 32 endpoints (currently; the technology is supposed to evolve to support 64 endpoints). In other words, each endpoint gets around 80 Mb/s downstream and around 40 Mb/s upstream. 2.5 Gb/s is the downstream system capacity between the optical line terminal and optical network terminal, not the service offered to an individual customer. In addition, the back end of the optical line terminal is typically a single GbE port into the carrier's backbone, so there's a contention factor which limits the total bandwidth available to the subscribers served by the OLT to less than 1 Gb/s.

  4. English DOC by bismark.a · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is an English translation of the page from Google. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.presence-pc.com%2Factualite%2Fftth-experien ce-18331%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF -8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools