The end of your slow DSL or cable internet connection is getting more and more real. At least if you live in the USA. Verizon announced on Thursday that it has chosen Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs to provide equipment based on the latest fiber-to-the-home standard called gigabit passive optical network, or GPON. Passive optical network technology, or PON, is an optical-access system that lets multiple homes or businesses in a neighborhood share fiber from a service provider’s central office. The most widely used PON standard today is broadband passive optical networks or BPON, which splits 622Mbps (megabits per second) of downstream bandwidth and 155Mbps of upstream bandwidth among 32 homes or businesses.
By contrast, GPON allows Verizon to split 2.4Gbps (gigabits per second) of capacity downstream and 1.2Gbps of capacity upstream among 32 homes or business. This boost in speed should help Verizon eventually offer consumers up to 100Mbps downloads into their homes, the company said. Today, the carrier typically offers services of 5Mbps, 15Mbps and 30Mbps. In some locations, it offers 50Mbps. As of 2005, the fiber network was available to 3 million homes and businesses. The company is on track to make it available to another 3 million by the end of 2006. Damn, I want this too! Or no, I got a better idea: move to Korea or Japan, they got 100/100 there for $25. Jesus 
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