The number of certified interoperable G.fast solutions on the market has grown from seven to 24 in less than three months as mass deployment of the copper acceleration technology grows, according to the Broadband Forum.
ADTRAN, EXFO and Viavi have become the latest companies to have their products certified under the Broadband Forum and University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) certification program.
The three vendors join ARRIS, Calix, Huawei, Metanoia, Nokia and Technicolor, which were the first companies to achieve device certification supported by chip manufacturers Broadcom, Metanoia and Sckipio.
“From recent leading provider deployment announcements and analyst predictions, there is no doubt that G.fast is gathering momentum with the value of certified-interoperable systems well-recognized as key for mass-market provisioning of ultrafast broadband,” Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh said.
"Having only announced the first G.fast certification results less than three months ago, it's great to see the certification program's rapid and measurable progress."
G.fast promises to achieve speeds of between 150Mbps and 1Gbps depending on the length of the local DSL loops. The first G.fast chipsets were introduced in October 2014, the first commercial hardware emerged in 2015 and commercial deployments commenced last year.