December 18, 2009In the wake of Verizon's recent XG-PON field trial with Huawei, Motorola's director of global marketing and communications for Access Networks, Floyd Wagoner, says that his company also has field trials of 10-Gbps PON technology on tap.
Wagoner expects the trials to take place in the first quarter of next year. While he wouldn't confirm that the trials will be with Verizon (rather, "one of the largest deployers in the world"), that seems a pretty safe bet. Motorola is one of Verizon's current GPON suppliers.
Wagoner says that current worldwide interest in 10G PON technology -- including 10G EPON -- is pretty much of the tire-kicking variety. He placed the number of carriers with even that much interest at less than 10.
He believes 10G PON won't reach wide deployment for another three or four years, due to a combination of lack of need and a fairly large price tag.
