The reception of telcos to G.Fast has been fantastic lately, according to Kurt Raaflaub of telecom equipment maker Adtran. He said that as recently as a year ago the telcos reception to G.Fast was a toss-up, but that Adtran is now lining up trials at a number of unnamed telcos. While the technical standard is expected to be completed by the end of December 2014, there are still several sections that work groups will continue ironing out. The Vectoring element for G.Fast is mandatory and as such is pretty much done. Best management practices for FTTdp customer reverse powering and FTTdp network are two architectural items that will continue being worked on after the G.Fast standard is signed off on…