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Originally Posted by goldchip
Very interesting point made "Fibre to 500 home level allows future upgrade to fibre to the home" - did the original poster see this? (sounds like he was leaning towards it)
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Yes I did, mentioned it in post#12.
I realise that fibre to the home is problematic and won't happen for some time, if at all. I was more thinking along the lines of VDSL which can give up to 55Mbps download over shortish lengths of copper connected to fibre.
Some of the thoughts going through my head are:
VDSL via cablecos.
Duplicating fibre all the way to the nodes to provide double the capacity for TV and broadband.
Moving UBRs to Nodes.
Continuing fibre from nodes to cabs.
Having STBs that fetch TV from servers at the Hub (BOD) similar to VOD so that not all TV channels are sent to all customers, freeing up bandwidth for other purposes.
In a way it is a pity that there are competing platforms providing services. Just think of using satellite for most of the download for TV and broadband and cable or DSL for upload and return path.
There is a lot of talk around various forums of how far Britain is behind other parts of the World and I was wondering about the feasability of various methods of catching up.
There are two issues though, feasability and cost. Don't know which are feasable but all would be very costly.