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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: Bowdon on April 30, 2016, 11:23:56 AM
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A Few More Details on BT’s Ultrafast Bradford FTTP Broadband Trial (http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/details-bts-ultrafast-bradford-fttp-broadband-trial.html)
BT Wholesale has given a small, but useful, update on the progress of the native Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology trial in Bradford, which among other things confirms that the full network build should now be practically complete (subject to landlord permissions and further testing).
The Bradford trial, which aims “to explore if the technology can be installed faster and more efficiently in business parks and high streets” (e.g. it will look at reducing the need for several engineers to cut and melt fibres together), is currently (Phase One) focused on the areas of Kirkgate High Street and Listerhills Science Park.
Initially the trial will offer the standard 330Mbps (30Mbps upload) FTTP product and we now know that this will be followed in July 2016 (TBC) by a new special offer and product trial that will introduce the expected 500Mbps (100Mbps) and 1000Mbps (150Mbps) variants; the latter is considered more of a “premium” solution.
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With these trials, Swindon, Huntingdon, etc, the speed at which deployments seem able to be done and the costs involved anyone would think that originally running with splicing throughout and being concerned with very little beyond delivering to a splitter initially wasn’t such a hot idea after all.
Maybe much of the rest of the FTTP world had a point using connectorisation with splicing as a fall-back and Openreach got it wrong.
Stranger things have happened, albeit not many.
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In other news this will require use of 10Gb Cablelinks from Openreach and >1Gb SVLANs from BT Wholesale, probably built on the relatively new 10Gb EAD product.
Heh.
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