Needed for TV unless the do IPTV; RFOG is a type of coarse WDM. Service wise its 300M and even on coax 3.1 can goto 1G over coax…
So bandwidth over copper, coax or fibre is all the same ;) Neil. From: uknof <[email protected]> on behalf of Nicholas Humfrey <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 22:42 To: Marty Strong <[email protected]>, Peter Knapp <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, James Greig <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] Virgin Media fibre expansion They are rolling it out where I live too, in Denham, Bucks. https://twitter.com/njh/status/802220928319033344 https://twitter.com/njh/status/821827975888994304 Although they have been digging the streets for months, there is no sign of them switching anything on anytime soon. I went to a meeting at our village hall, where they said that when the fibre reaches the house, a converter will turn it back into coax. So I guess it is basically DOCSIS over fibre, instead of coax. And means that they can use the same CPE in all properties. This is confirmed in this article on ISPreview: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/01/virgin-media-begins-deployment-voip-phone-alongside-broadband.html "Roughly 2 million (50%) of the new premises will be reached via FTTP, which adapts to DOCSIS signals (the communication standard for cable operators) in the home environment via an approach known as Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG)." nick. From: uknof <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Marty Strong <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Sunday, 28 May 2017 at 21:38 To: Peter Knapp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, James Greig <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [uknof] Virgin Media fibre expansion Interesting, what kind of CPE do they have? Are they offering the same speeds as their DOCSIS product, or higher? On 28 May 2017 at 20:35, Peter Knapp <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yes it's ftth. Sister in laws house has just been connected in a project lightening area. On 28 May 2017 8:16 pm, James Greig <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, Virgin are rolling out FTTH/FTTP apparently so seems very likely. https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7404-virgin-media-lays-claim-to-largest-ftth-roll-out-in-uk Best regards, James Greig From: uknof [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Marty Strong Sent: 28 May 2017 19:59 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [uknof] Virgin Media fibre expansion Virgin have been digging up the streets of Barnet for a few weeks as part of a new expansion (https://www.theresavilliers.co.uk/news/lightning-strikes-barnet-40000-premises-get-ultrafast-broadband-boost-virgin-media). Had a look at some of the streets they were digging up and noticed they're installing small green tubing in the ducts they're digging, which don't seem to be big enough to take coax in. They also don't seem to be installing any green cabinets, just little plastic covers at each house. On top of the tubing they're laying green plastic warning that it's fibre optic being laid and not copper, seems as though they're doing FTTH, does anybody know if any of the new expansion areas are FTTH, or all just FTTC? Image: http://imgur.com/a/aEWjH
