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Originally Posted by ianch99
Some areas are never ready for any upgrade never mind the upcoming one. VM have a problem: they own a patchwork quilt of inherited/acquired physical networks each with own challenges of topology/demographic mismatches, ageing fibre etc. infrastructure, etc.
BT had the luxury, so it seems, to design and deploy a newer, technology wise, network into a far more devolved, fine grained solution. As a result, their ability to react to localised network loading problems seems far more reactive and sophisticated.
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What a superb summary, thanks so much for this.
One potentially awkward point though, is that especially when "longstanding" congestion areas are solved - I presume through new CMTS mainly - how future-proof such fixes are.
In other words, if resolving congestion (either on broadband or Tivo-legacy) takes substantial work, then how much future planning is built into that work, to avoid congestion occurring within a reasonable timeframe.
I'm potentially speaking from experience here, having presumed (hopefully not in error) that fixes would last a decent amount of time.