Maxis has announced that it has successfully trialled 10G PON for the first time on its network. According to Maxis, their next-generation fibre-to-home network was able to deliver download speeds close to 10Gbps. In their demonstration, a 1GB video took less than a second to download. As a comparison, it will take approximately 23 seconds to download the same file on a typical 300Mbps GPON download speed.The speedtest demo result from Maxis shows symmetrical speeds with 9436.
Maxis Chief Technology Strategy Officer, Rob Sewell said, “Network infrastructure is constantly evolving. With the rise of new services such as cloud computing, VR, AR, and even full-fibre campuses, upgrades to higher capacity networks are critical to support future bandwidth requirements. We are proud of this achievement which reflects our commitment to the best technology innovation in a highly connected world, as well as our broad aspirations of Rangkaian Kita Rangkaian Malaysia campaign.
At the moment, Maxis offers fibre broadband with speeds ranging from 30Mbps to 800Mbps. As revealed during the launch of its brand campaign, Maxis has access to over 21,000km of fibre coverage covering 5.5 million premises throughout the country. At the moment, they have 4.8 million converged subscribers that use both Maxis mobile and broadband services.with other fibre providers such as TM HSBB, SACOFA in Sarawak, Celcom Timur Sabah and TNB’s Allo, to expand its fibre broadband footprint nationwide.