Orange tests Romania’s first 50G PON fiber connection
Orange Romania announced that it tested 50G PON fiber-optic technology for the first time in the country at its 5G Lab in Bucharest. The proof of concept explored potential uses ranging from 8K and 16K streaming to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and industrial applications. 50G PON is the generation of fiber data transmission technology that follows XGS-PON, the 10 Gbps standard currently in use. It can deliver speeds of up to 50 Gbps. During the test, Orange recorded download and upload speeds of approximately 40 Gbps on a single fiber connected to one computer. Latency remained…
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