Bell Labs Claims New Speed Record with 10 Gbps Over Copper

The research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, announced a new speed record for the transmission of data over copper lines of 10 Gbps (10,000 Mbps).

The experiment was in a lab setting, using prototype technology called XG-FAST, which is a prototype extension of G.Fast, the next generation copper broadband technology.

G.Fast is being finalized as an ITU standard, and should start becoming commercially available sometime in 2015. The 10 Gbps over copper experiment used two bonded copper pairs with an expanded frequency range of 500 MHz. The transmission was over a very short distance of 30 meters (approx 100 feet).