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Google Fiber just made headlines with plans to launch a new 20 Gbps internet service that offers more than twice the speed of its current top tier offering. Ziply Fiber’s new residential plan, though, completely steals the show. CEO Harold Zeitz told Fierce it is now offering a 50-gig service – that’s 5x the speed of its current 10-gig offering – across its entire footprint…and it isn’t using PON to do it.
“It’s not PON, it’s Ethernet,” Zeitz said. “We’ve architected our network differently than others so we can either deliver a PON network to the home or we can deliver a direct fiber connection, in which case we could deliver any speed. We could deliver 400 [gigs] if we wanted to.”
While Ziply does use XGS-PON for its 2-gig and 5-gig service offerings, Zeitz noted it’s actually also using Ethernet to deliver its 10-gig service. That’s because Zeitz said he’s a stickler for providing more than the full speeds advertised and even XGS-PON can’t quite deliver a full 10 Gbps service due to overhead constraints.