Hi,
VM broadband is delivered by fibre to the cabinet at the end of your street where is is converted back to copper. So by "fibre optic broadband" they mean "fibre to the cabinet" not "fibre to the home." It does mean that the copper run for the broadband is short :)
Cable BB also works differently (wide broadband radio signals on the TV RF cable rather than thousands of small RF signals on the phone line)
Having seen the amount of **** that gets into the ducts is you see them trying to replace some it's worth watching. Often good for a laugh :)
Cheers,
Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Johnson <mark@???>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:47:06
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Festive headline
On Monday 22 December 2008 12:23:20 Rob Malpass wrote:
> At the risk of asking the obvious (and having seen the diagram on the BBC
> website) - does fibre optic broadband mean digging up the roads to domestic
> houses? Or is it just the fatter pipes to whatever the cabled equivalent
> of exchanges are (UBRs is it?) that need replacing ?
AFAIK, when cables are laid (such as when virgin come and dig up the road)
they'll lay a plastic conduit with a coaxial cable in, that has plenty of room
for a fibre optic cable next to it. This means that when it comes to installing
the FO, they just open up the inspection chambers and feed it through the
conduits, with no further digging up required.
Mark
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