The operator Orange is significantly accelerating the deployment of its 10 Gb/s fiber (XGS-PON) and aims to cover the entire territory within 3 years.
After falling behind Free, SFR and Bouygues Télécom, Orange has moved up a gear with the deployment of its fiber operating via XGS-PON technology. According to the historic operator, the latter should probably cover the entire French territory by 2026.
The choice of be used on traditional fiber lines already installed and can be deployed more easily.
As a reminder, 10G-EPON Fiber can deliver a download speed of up to 10 Gb/s and up to 1.2 Gb/s for sending while XGS-PON fiber can offer an asymmetrical speed (download and sending). ) up to 10 Gb/s.
100% of French people with fiber in 3 years?
If this question has been almost like a chestnut for several years as the operators’ promises have never really been kept, Orange seems to show real ambitions on the subject. This is evidenced by the introduction of its recent Livebox 7, compatible with this fiber technology. The stakes are high, in particular to regain a number one position on domestic internet connections that Bouygues Télécom and Free have shared for some time, as illustrated by the latest Nperf barometer dating from July 2023.
With this in mind, Orange announced that it had passed the milestone of one million homes connected to its XGS-PON fiber and announced that it wanted to cover the entire territory in the years to come, through its product marketing director Laurent Feurer:
In France, we should have 30% of customers eligible for XGS-PON by the end of 2024 and we are aiming for 100% by the end of 2026.
With this announcement, the operator aims to position itself as the only operator to offer its new generation fiber to the entire territory and embrace the resulting trends such as uses around mixed reality or virtual reality in the cloud, extremely requesters in terms of bandwidth and low latency.
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