{"id":28172,"date":"2021-08-19T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T23:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=28172"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:15:30","slug":"itu-says-mgfast-standard-can-do-8gbps-broadband-via-copper-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/08\/itu-says-mgfast-standard-can-do-8gbps-broadband-via-copper-lines.html","title":{"rendered":"ITU Says MGfast Standard Can Do 8Gbps Broadband via Copper Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) might have shelved the use of hybrid fibre G.fast<\/a> (ITU G.9701) broadband technology in the UK, but the International Telecommunication Union<\/a> (ITU) has continued to develop a sequel to that technology called MGfast (G.9711<\/a>) and it will soon become more widely available, with speeds of up to 8Gbps being promised.<\/p>\n

We first reported on some early research into MGFast<\/strong> (G.mgfast) technology in 2017 (here<\/a>), which is back when G.fast<\/a><\/strong> was still very much something that Openreach<\/a> intended to deploy at scale – aiming to reach around 10 million UK homes and businesses by the end of 2020. This came just before the Government started pushing for “gigabit<\/em>” and “full fibre<\/em>” deployments.<\/p>\n

Openreach<\/a>’s implementation of G.fast<\/a> was much like their prior Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (FTTC<\/a> \/ VDSL2<\/a>) technology, which is to say that it worked by running an optical fibre cable to a local street cabinet or remote node, which then served local homes over the final run of existing copper cable. But while FTTC<\/a> \/ VDSL2<\/a> promised top speeds of up to 80Mbps, G.fast – at least in the UK – could offer up to 330Mbps.<\/p>\n

The catch is that in order to attain such speeds the first generation of G.fast services needed to harness much more spectrum frequency (e.g. 106MHz<\/strong> vs c.17MHz on VDSL2<\/a>), as well as various other improvements (e.g. vectoring by default). This meant that – due to signal degradation over distance – you had to live much.. closer to your local PCP street cabinet in order to get the best speeds (excluding a big chunk of the market).<\/p>\n

In theory, G.fast could deliver top theoretical speeds of up to 1-2Gbps, but to get that you’d have to be just a few tens of metres away (i.e. much more expensive to deploy and maintain).<\/p>\n

Enter MGfast<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

By now you’ve probably already guessed that MGfast, while claiming to offer much improved top speeds of up to 8Gbps (aggregated) via 424MHz<\/strong> of spectrum frequency in Full Duplex<\/strong> (FDX) mode – or 4Gbps when in Time Division Duplexing<\/strong> (TDD) mode, also carries with it a much bigger caveat on distance.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, you’d need to be almost sitting on top of the distribution node to really benefit from this, and that’s before we consider that a future version of MGfast may expand the frequency band to 848MHz<\/strong> for even higher bit rates (i.e. over even shorter distances). Previously, there was talk of 848MHz being used to hit 10Gbps.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The 35MHz VDSL2 and 212MHz G.fast profiles, shown below, were never commercially deployed at scale in the UK.<\/div>\n

\"MGfast-Gfast-VDSL2-Distance\"<\/p>\n

\"MGFast-Gfast-VDSL2-Maximum-Speeds-Scale\"<\/p>\n

The distance issue is partly why the ITU are now pitching this more for Fibre-to-the-extension-point<\/strong><\/a> (FTTep) or Fibre-to-the-Building<\/strong> (FTTB) style deployments. In this scenario you might run MGfast from the bottom of an apartment block (MDU), or similar building (office etc.), and would then be more likely to use existing coaxial cable or CAT5\/6-type Ethernet wiring to reach individual homes\/flats.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, this could also work over thin twisted-pair copper wires, like the ones that Openreach are in the slow process of now retiring, but you probably wouldn’t want to waste your time with that.<\/p>\n

ITU Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The MGfast standard, ITU G.9711, not only promises higher bit rates than ever, but also ultra-low latency for highly interactive applications, the capability to optimize Quality of Service (QoS) in line with the needs of different applications, and point-to-multipoint operation enabling better coverage within the premises … [as well as] introducing advanced forward error correction based on Low-Density Parity-Check coded modulation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ultimately, MGfast is now an approved standard (since April 2021), but we’re unlikely to ever see it forming the backbone of any major deployments in the UK, which brings us back to G.fast.<\/p>\n

As for the story of G.fast in the United Kingdom, the technology only ever reached around 2.8 million premises and its performance often struggled to deliver on what was advertised, while take-up continues to be weak. Little wonder that Openreach ended up shelving it<\/a> in favour of a much more future-proof approach via Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) technology, which is planned to reach 25 million premises by December 2026.<\/p>\n

It’s fun to see the ITU talking about MGfast now and a market for that may still exist somewhere, but the reality is you’re unlikely to ever see it doing much in the UK, and that’s just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Openreach (BT) might have shelved the use of hybrid fibre G.fast (ITU G.9701) broadband technology in the UK, but the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has continued to develop a sequel to that technology called MGfast (G.9711) and it will soon become more widely available, with speeds of up to 8Gbps being promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,420,417,482],"class_list":["post-28172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fttc","tag-fttdp","tag-g-fast","tag-xg-fast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nITU Says MGfast Standard Can Do 8Gbps Broadband via Copper Lines - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Openreach (BT) might have shelved the use of hybrid fibre G.fast (ITU G.9701) broadband technology in the UK, but the International Telecommunication\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/08\/itu-says-mgfast-standard-can-do-8gbps-broadband-via-copper-lines.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ITU Says MGfast Standard Can Do 8Gbps Broadband via Copper Lines - 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