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Originally Posted by Kushan
There's obviously money being invested, I don't think anyone can genuinely claim that there isn't, but the questions are really "is enough money being invested?" and "is the money being invested in the right places?"
We all measure quality by different standards. Virgin sadly measures their peak throughput and for many of us, that's not a particularly great metric but it's one that sells.
The only way the situation will change is to vote with your wallet. Sadly Virgin's average peak speeds are higher than what BT can offer me, though it's definitely getting worse in my area. I haven't seen 200mbit yet.
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Yes a point but they will and have to invest in all of the Access network, all of the network amps will have to be replaced for the Upstream and downstream for Docsis 3.1 otherwise they will not be able to progress. They have constantly been investing maybe not in the correct areas but i believe that maybe down to the fact that the Access network needs massive investment as it has vast areas of the original amps that have been in place since day 1 and these will not be able to provide the Downstream or upstream needed for Docsis 3.1 and the future
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Originally Posted by horseman
FWIW Vivid200 appeared on my (already) congested BN3 (brig15 Cisco 10k provisioned)segment on 1October (and another brig18 segment I monitor) but Arris E6k and 16channels didn't appear till the 15October!
No sign of load rebalancing yet either?
Carl's right though that without node splits up-front then even with the later expenditure of D3.1 line amps then there will still be ongoing "congestion" for some considerable time. 
Even re-aligning every new amp with diplex D3.1 compliant filters/padding may well generate home visits for legacy 8x4CPE customers that have retained inappropriate D3.0 line conditioning on their CPE hubs?
Despite the investment there must be a limit to the pool of skilled resource which will also help prolong the D3.1 rollout over several years?
Will be interesting to see how the D3.1 channel plans are mapped in each area to mitigate the effects on legacy CPE users in addition to (any) further utilisation relief. |
Once the new amps are installed by the contractor they are handed over to the Access Engineers as they always have done. I'm sure there will be many contractors cashing in on the work over the foreseeable future
Docsis 3.0 and 3.1 are be able to work side by side in fact 3.1 can work with 3.0 so really is down to the few Docsis 1.0-2.0 to be replaced.
As for congestion i think there are many legacy factors,(and cash at present) holding this up, there are lots of reasons why they do not happen or are cancelled.