CES 2015

Later this year you may truly be able to say goodbye to your cable company including dropping broadband cable. A new technology will make it possible for telephone companies to boost their speeds to over a Gbps (gigabit per second). That is 100 times faster than the 10 Mbps (megabits per second) average speed most homes have today and the same speed as Google fiber. At these speeds, users could stream four uncompressed 4K streams at the same time.

Developed by Israeli semiconductor chip company, Sckipio, G.fast technology runs over existing telephone copper wires and does not require fiber-optic cable all the way to your home. Instead, it is a way of boosting a signal to give more speed and more bandwidth to each customer. The best benefit of G.fast is that you don’t share bandwidth with your neighbors so your Internet speeds won’t decrease during busy times.

Sckipio will make the chips to go into access points and modems. I spent some time with the creators of G.fast learning the details of how it works. Leave a comment if you want me to explain more about it in a future blog.