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This technology is trying to bring high-speed internet to underserved areas
Fiber optic internet cables can bring crazy-fast internet connections to everyone in the United States. Theoretically.
In practice, the people who could most use a new high-speed connection -- low-income residents of both urban and rural areas -- are the ones least likely to get it.
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Sckipio Demonstrates Gfast Speeds of 3.1 Gbps Downstream over Copper, Calix Takes Advantage
Manufacturers continue to enhance the broadband speeds that copper phone wiring can support using the Gfast standard. Sckipio today said it demonstrated Gfast speeds of 3.1 Gbps downstream and 900 Mbps upstream at the Broadband World Forum in Berlin. The demonstration used two copper pairs bonded together.
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Sckipio touts fibre-like symmetrical G.fast kit
Fabless G.fast silicon house Sckipio hopes to give the fibre-most-of-the-way, copper to the home market a kick along with silicon that gets close to symmetric performance, at whatever data rate the copper can support.
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CenturyLink G.fast Strategy Begins with Largest North American G.fast Deployment to Date
A CenturyLink G.fast strategy began in Platteville, Wisconsin, where the broadband carrier has deployed what it claims to be the largest G.fast deployment in North America. That strategy will include deploying G.fast to MDUs, MTUs, and neighborhoods where fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) is present.
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Huge breakthrough in blazing fast internet speeds
How would you like Google Fiber-like internet speeds delivered over your home phone line? That's the promise of G.Fast. It's a new technology that can deliver blazing fast internet over the wires you already have in your home. For many, it will be the first time they'll have more than one choice for broadband.
There are still a lot of questions surrounding G.Fast: When will it be available? Who will be able to get it? And how much will it cost? But on Monday, one crucial question was answered: How fast will it be? Very.
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Old, slow telephone lines may soon be a lot faster
For ultra-fast Internet, you need fiber, right? Wrong, say promoters of a technology called G.Fast, which is creating quite a bit of buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. G.Fast produces Google Fiber-like speeds over plain old copper telephone lines. Think of it as DSL on steroids. It's actually been around awhile but has not been widely deployed, a situation that appears to be about to change. Among those displaying G.Fast applications at the CES is Israeli chipmaker Sckipio, which staged a demonstration showing download speeds of nearly 750 megabits per second on a standard phone line using one of its modems. Chances are that's about 50 times faster than the broadband you have coming into your home via fiber or coax.
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Forget Google Fiber, Faster Home Internet is Near
Home Internet speeds are often slow, expensive and if you get fed up it is sometimes impossible to find a different service, but later this year consumers may see new faster options from existing companies without waiting for Google Fiber to arrive.
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Five tech trends from CES 2016
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the modern equivalent of a mid 20th century ‘world of tomorrow’ expo, where leading techies gather (in Las Vegas of all places) to give the rest of us a glimpse into the future. But this year the ideas seem to be running dry. Take a look at these leading developments and see if they seem at all... familiar.
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Super-fast Internet is coming over your phone line
Today, you have a choice between cable broadband Internet, which is expensive, or DSL Internet over your phone line, which is slow. But soon, a new technology will be coming to your home that will offer Google Fiber-like speeds right over your phone line. It's called G.Fast, and Israeli chipmaker Sckipio is showing off the powerful technology at CES this year.
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No More Baby Steps!
As Bob Dylan sang, “The times they are a-changin’.” What has constituted a definition for broadband for some 15 years now has been a series of Mother-may-I steps from tens of kilobits/second speeds (aka dialup) to xDSL technologies where speeds moved to megabits and then tens of megabits per second, eventually achieving a thousandfold speed improvement.
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Intel invests in G.fast chipmaker Sckipio
Intel Capital has taken the entirety of Sckipio Technologies' latest funding round, according to the G.fast chip-making startup. The funding amount was not revealed, based on Intel's preferences in such instances, according to a Sckipio source.
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Israeli chip design startup Sckipio raises funding from Intel Capital
SIsraeli chip design startup Sckipio — which is trying to deliver fast Internet bandwidth to the masses — has raised a new round of funding from Intel Capital, the investment arm of the world’s biggest chip maker.
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Who Should Buy Sckipio? My Money's on Intel
f you're looking for the next likely acquisition candidate in the comms chip market then take a look at Israeli startup Sckipio, which has dedicated its existence to developing chipsets for the emerging G.fast technology market that is set to grow quickly in the coming years. (See G.fast Banter at BBWF.)
