Virgin Media to Trial Ultrafast Broadband over Telegraph Poles

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by rickymallory

In the new areas where VM are going to trial overhead cable... why don't they forget about coazial and just stick in FTTH... it would save them money in the long run, especially if VM do decide they will do FTTH everywhere someday.

HHHhhhmmmm, Fibre dangling and swaying in the breeze...

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

HHHhhhmmmm, Fibre dangling and swaying in the breeze...

In the same manner as the aerial networks serving 10s of millions of premises in Japan, South Korea, the USA, etc?

The fibre doesn't run blind, it's attached to a more rigid backbone.

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/165...+Internet.html

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

In the same manner as the aerial networks serving 10s of millions of premises in Japan, South Korea, the USA, etc?

The fibre doesn't run blind, it's attached to a more rigid backbone.

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/165...+Internet.html

they like to keep it all neat and tidy lol

I want some of his dolls lol

oh and his net connection lol

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

In the same manner as the aerial networks serving 10s of millions of premises in Japan, South Korea, the USA, etc?

The fibre doesn't run blind, it's attached to a more rigid backbone.

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/165...+Internet.html

I suppose it's different to the last time I touched fibre, that was a dual fibre parallel cable when working for DEC, only had to go 100m under a false floor from the server room to a dedicated line printer room.. We eventually got it on the fourth attempt after three broken cables

Mind you that was back in 1988

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by zing

they like to keep it all neat and tidy lol

I want some of his dolls lol

oh and his net connection lol

Which one of them? He had two, both symmetrical 100M

---------- Post added at 10:31 ---------- Previous post was at 10:29 ----------

Originally Posted by Kymmy

I suppose it's different to the last time I touched fibre, that was a dual fibre parallel cable when working for DEC, only had to go 100m under a false floor from the server room to a dedicated line printer room.. We eventually got it on the fourth attempt after three broken cables

Mind you that was back in 1988

Tad less brittle fibre now, and not two fibres, just a single fibre with TV, upstream and downstream on different lambda.

[Pierre]

There's thousands of km of trunk fibre running aerially around the country, as long as it's secured to something rigid and stable it wont be an issue.

[bw41101]

Originally Posted by Chris

How is it pioneering to use telegraph poles? I have a telegraph pole outside my window right now. BT put it there, decades ago.

Indeed, the Americans have been using this delivery system for years and (over there) there's more than one cable company plying for trade - usually via the same route.

Si thee.

[m419]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Click here for press release

Thats what they should have done in the first place,cheaper and better than digging up roads and pavements.

Other possibilities:

Use of ducts used by other Utilities such as BT and EDF Energy
Sewers

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by m419

Thats what they should have done in the first place,cheaper and better than digging up roads and pavements.

As has already been said I'm sure they would have done if they had been allowed - but the planning regs wouldn't let them it seems

Plus Fiber that was strong enough has only recently become cheap enough

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

In the same manner as the aerial networks serving 10s of millions of premises in Japan, South Korea, the USA, etc?

The fibre doesn't run blind, it's attached to a more rigid backbone.

http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/165...+Internet.html

And those pictures demonstrate exactly why the planning restrictions for overhead cables are what they are in this country.

That is one hell of an unsightly mess.

[Pauls9]

Originally Posted by TheDon

And those pictures demonstrate exactly why the planning restrictions for overhead cables are what they are in this country.

That is one hell of an unsightly mess.

Quoted for truth.

And what is it with his collection of dolls?