Verizon eyes commercial customers for new fiber service

Verizon has started offering a fiber-to-the-desktop service dubbed Optical LAN Solutions to the federal government and is expected to extend the program to commercial customers soon. OLS uses single-mode fiber and basic GPON gear to build a local area network that can deliver up to 25 terahertz of capacity over 12 miles.

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This story published in USTelecom dailyLead on 11/04/2009





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