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Originally Posted by BenMcr
In what respect?
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CMTS's sotn8 and sotn9 are over utilised to various degrees as far as I know, possibly more are as well. Some chronically, some less so. I was speaking to one of the Southampton area Principal Engineers yesterday (he came out to replace my shub2) about the Southampton problems. He gave me an update on my utilisation fault for my sotn8 network segment and the other works that are in progress to address the sotn capacity issues.
I know for a fact that new customers are being added and existing customers are being upgraded who would route into the Southampton head end. I do not believe for one minute that "the Networks team release(s) capacity" for upgrades, at least not in my area they don't. They are too busy trying to resegment and add capacity to a 20+ year old fibre network original designed for pockets of Cable TV subscribers in order to address the demands of the current customer base. The problem is that the fibre network topology as laid down 20+ years ago is no longer a optimal fit for the population centre now trying to use it. He said that you can get situations where you can go from one house that has chronic peak utilisation problems, walk across the road and get your headline speed 24x7.