More Google Fiber Deployments? Exec Shares Company’s Vision for New SuperPON Architecture

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Google is seeking industry support for a new Google Fiber vision for a passive optical network (PON) fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) architecture that would increase the distance between the central office and the customer, said Claudio DeSanti, architect for Google. The Google SuperPON architecture would support up to 1,024 customers over distances up to 50 kilometers– a substantial change from today’s architecture that supports up to 64 customers over distances of up to 20 kilometers. The goal would be to minimize the amount of fiber required to support FTTH and the associated labor.

Google already has deployed the technology in one of its existing fiber markets, DeSanti said. That deployment supports existing GPON speeds but Google expects SuperPON to support speeds of 10 Gbps per customer. The development is an important one in that it suggests a renewed interest in PON on the part of Google Fiber. Google a few years ago “paused” its PON deployments. Asked whether Google Fiber would be deploying SuperPON in North America, DeSanti said “I would expect so” but stressed that he was involved in the technology side of the company, not the business side.


More Google Fiber Deployments? Exec Shares Company’s Vision for New SuperPON Architecture