GOLD - Gigabits Over the Legacy Drop
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Lunds universitet - Institutionen för Elektro- och informationsteknik |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 3 009 800 |
| Project duration | April 2015 - December 2017 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Eureka cluster co-funding |
Purpose and goal
There were several focus points for the project: To continue the work on a second version of the G.fast standard. To boost the usability of G.fast towards dense city areas. To ensure that G.fast becomes a market success by spreading know-how about where and how to deploy in the most optimal (economical) manner, and where to select what type of backhauling and powering option. GOLD reached all goals fulfilling the vision in the former projects 4GBB and HFCC.
Expected results and effects
G.fast offers broadband services with gigabit rates and is a step towards fibre-to-the-home. The standard contributes towards maintaining a global lead for European telecommunications industry and enables affordable high-speed broadband to European homes and businesses. In addition to the G.fast family of standard, the project resulted a number of fixed-broadband products and services, but the knowledge found its way in to other areas too, for instance mobile communications.
Planned approach and implementation
The focus of the trilogy of projects was standardization and the main tool was writing standardization contribution. GOLD alone produced about 500 contributions to ITU-T, ETSI, and BBF. The projects served both as platforms for technical collaboration, in order to deal with problems and obstacles to progress the standards, and platforms for coordination of work related to the standards. The total amount of resources and effort influenced by the project was much larger than the projects’ modest budgets. Many of the projects’ partners were self-funded.