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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Basically it took BT 11 months to rollout FTTC in my area after the decision made to enable the area, whilst it takes VM longer then that just to upgrade existing services. The former would have required far more physical work.
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Not neccessarily.
Openreach installing a new FTTC cab would as far as possible blow fibre down existing ducts to the existing cab. VM adding capacity via a new optical node would do the same.
Openreach installing a new FTTC cab would dig up the road to obtain power from the nearest available source. VM adding capacity via a new optical node wouldn't necessarily have to do that, but if they did, the would do the same.
Openreach would then have to install cross-connects from the existing cab to the new cab. VM adding capacity via a new optical node would do the same.
If existing VM infrastructure is at capacity, then they have to go through all the same routine as Openreach do installing a new cab - including planning permissions, civil works, road closures, etc.
Course if there's existing capacity available that's not being used, bringing it online is fairly trivial in comparison.