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[niemand]

So as it's been on Roadworks.org for a little while now I can inform you lovely people that Leeds will be home to the third deployment of FTTP from Virgin Media, after the initial trial in Papworth Everard and the deployment in the villages just outside Leicester.

The villages of Allerton Bywater, Great Preston, Kippax and Garforth are going to be passed with an RFoG network which will be deployed using micro-trenching.

This network is basically HFC without being hybrid and involving coax and can use VM's existing hubsite architectures with the bonuses that it will have far superior RF performance to the hybrid network and VM can, at their leisure, use xPON alongside the RFoG. Far fewer cabinets and no need for anything active in the field, too.

Within the home the fibre terminates and is converted to coax to deliver an RF signal to the same equipment as in a standard Virgin Media home. Telephony can be delivered via EuroPacketCable and battery backup supports the ONT and eMTA.

[niemand]

One for the roadworks guys. It may not be as 'interesting' as the output from Adastral Park but it's innovative in its own way.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Nor5GPPmE&ab_channel=StirlingLloydPolychem[/youtube]

[Chrysalis]

you suddenly seem to have hit the jackpot with cityfibre and now VM.

is FTTP like bus's, none for ages and then loads at once?

[niemand]

I personally haven't - there's a non-trivial chance VM will go straight past our cul-de-sac, maybe dropping at the edge to serve a single property and leaving 2 of the 3 properties, one being ours, unserved 

As far as Leeds goes the CityFibre stuff is essentially a rebadging of the KCom network that was already here and they'll be looking for local authorities and businesses, not private residences, to take it up.

The FTTP from VM is definitely very cool but it also makes sense for them too - it's considerably cheaper to build FTTP than HFC now and HFC only makes sense in 'infill' which the Leeds Villages project isn't.

[Geekofbroadband]

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/04/virgin-media-will-roll-out-fttp-to-1-million-homes-in-the-uk/

Just seen this post: http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,17624.0.html 

[Moderator: Both threads have now been merged together.]

[xavilend]

So as it's been on Roadworks.org for a little while now I can inform you lovely people that Leeds will be home to the third deployment of FTTP from Virgin Media, after the initial trial in Papworth Everard and the deployment in the villages just outside Leicester.

The villages of Allerton Bywater, Great Preston, Kippax and Garforth are going to be passed with an RFoG network which will be deployed using micro-trenching.

Hi, been looking for a more detailed roll-out schedule for Virgin, but can't find one anywhere

I live in Allerton Bywater, but while VM had shown on the streetworks register to start digging last month, they're all now showing canceled, and the same is true in the extended areas such as Kippax and Garforth. Does anyone know why the works have been stopped or if this is just a normal delay?

Thanks in advance.