UK XGS-PON market heating up with CityFibre launch

UK altnet CityFibre has laid down the gauntlet to Openreach, launching a wholesale FTTH service that is faster than anything the incumbent currently has on offer.
Since last July, CityFibre has been busy upgrading its G-PON network to XGS-PON, which is capable of delivering symmetric peak throughput of 10 Gbps, a significant improvement over GPON’s asymmetric peak speeds of 2.5 Gbps download and 1.25 Gbps upload.
CityFibre this week decided the time is right to take its XGS-PON service to