Verizon Communications Inc. has successfully set up a 10 Gigabits per second downstream and 2.5 Gbps upstream link to a FiOS home in Taunton, Mass. as part of a trial of its XG-PON fiber optic transmission technology.

The transmission scheme developed by Motorola Inc. provided the 10 Gbps/2.5 Gbps feed into the customer’s optical network terminal mounted on the side of the house. From there, the ONT’s two data ports simultaneously transmitted speeds close to 1 Gbps to two PCs inside the home, to similar a typical dual-user scenario.

In addition, speed tests sending data from the home to a server more than 400 miles away in Reston, Va. produced throughputs of up to 915 Mbps.

"XG-PON can provide the capacity needed to support the explosive growth in bandwidth envisioned for new and emerging services such as 3DTV and Ultra HD TV, and the growing demand for streaming video content to the PC and TV, as well as the increased use of concurrent applications," said Vincent O'Byrne, director of technology for Verizon's FTTP architecture and design effort.

Verizon plans to continue testing the XG-PON technology, and by year-end it will send out requests for information for equipment from its vendors and suppliers.