BT demos ‘hyperfast’ broadband, ‘pre-standard 5G’ and SDN for live video

UK operator BT has been showing off the latest inventions at its Adastral Park labs, with a focus on fixed-line performance.
Arguably the headline piece of wizardry is the coining of the term ‘hyperfast’ to describe broadband that’s even faster than ultrafast and loads faster than superfast. In this case we’re talking about test equipment designed to replicate a real-life FTTP connection, which managed to yield a data rate of no less than 100 Gbps. It was developed in par