Five years ago this week… Faultline called Nokia’s bluff. The company’s subsidiary Alcatel had just announced a successful trial of its XG-Fast technology with Deustche Telekom, reaching aggregate bandwidth exceeding 11Gbps on two bonded pairs of Category 6 cables at 50 meters. However, claims of delivering home broadband speeds faster than 10 Gbps seemed unlikely considering that installing this technology could require an entire replacement of the last 30 meters of cabling to the home. XG-Fast looked likely to be rolled out to already-wired offices and enterprises, not homes. XG-Fast then became G.mgfast, before the better known moniker of G.fast took over, and fast forward to January 2021, there are still no chip providers for XG-Fast. — A new…