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[waltergmw]

Gentlefolk,

Some of you oldies might just remember

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/2420-blown-fibre-droptube-trial-underway-in-wales.html

but it's all gone very quiet until today:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8562932.stm

and

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z2616795050&z=950246474

Is there anybody around Roch, near Haverfordwest who could tell us more ?

Kind regards,
Walter

[stevie]

I read this on BBC the yesterday.

Its certainly an interesting development & should be cheaper than digging things up, but who knows whether it`ll take off?

Fibre is the way forward & the Future, but it needs HM Gov to inject some stimulus, maybe the banks could donate some of their profits back to the UK Population who bailed them out....somehow I doubt it.

 

[oldfogy]

Yes, it's something else Virgin Media are going to try.

Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test

Stringing up rural communities

By Tony Smith • Get more from this author

11th March 2010 12:59 GMT

Virgin Media is to see whether it can string up extensions to its fibre-optic network to Britain's telegraph poles in a bid to explore ways of bringing high-speed broadband to rural communities.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/11/virgin_media_telegraph_pole_broadband/

[waltergmw]

Gentlefolk,

In parallel with this thread yesterday I set the jungle drums beating all the way to sunny Haverfordwest.

The first messages back suggest that BT's trials are successful but it is unclear what, if anything, BT intend to do elsewhere some 4 or 5 years later.

Given that it has taken BT over two years to tell me their transparent excuse of our AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) does not prevent them adding 5 poles to their 30 already in the area, and despite the fact that the residents offered to contribute towards 400 m of new direct-line catenary cable, ".... there are no plans for any investment in the network in the area centred around the village of Ewhurst. ... the Cranleigh exchange is not in the current or next phases (Note the plural)  of the NGA FTTC roll out schedule ... etc. etc." I don't think I would wish to wait for their next overhead fibre deployments.

On a practical note I would be interested to know how resilient a glass fibre, probably only 62.5 microns thick, is to cracking due to percussion and whiplash effects of branches falling on an overhead fibre line.
We know only too well how BT's wires stretch when branches hit the lines but retain their (USO) 3 Khz bandwidth.

Kind regards,
Walter