Abstract
Continuous improvements in communication technologies over copper pair access networks have enabled hybrid fiber/copper access networks that provide ever increasing broadband data rates. Most recently, field trials have demonstrated that crosstalk cancellation, also referred to as vectoring, and bonding two pairs to push data rates of very high speed DSL above 100 Mb/s on a single copper pair and above 200 Mb/s on two copper pairs. Looking ahead, the G.fast project group of the ITU-T is currently defining a new copper access technology to provide aggregate (upstream and downstream) data rates of up to 1 Gb/s over distances up to 250 m. This article provides an overview of some key challenges that need to be addressed for G.fast.
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