UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has trialled the use of wireless radio signals to help connect homes in a Newbury village in the English area of West Berkshire to gigabit speeds and TV services over full fibre, claiming a first in the UK. The trial, led by Liberty Global and using Ericsson radio technology, has […]
UK telecoms infrastructure provider Openreach has kicked off a proposal to conduct two trials – in Salisbury and Mildenhall – to prepare the UK for the future nationwide upgrade to full fibre and ‘All-IP’ technologies. The move is part of its ongoing work with the UK’s Communications Providers (CPs) to withdraw ageing telephone and broadband […]
Claiming a UK first, full fibre infrastructure provider and ISP Truespeed will start offering residential customers a future-proof, Active Ethernet 10Gbps-capable full fibre service later in 2019. Unlike 10Gbps PON-based networks where the fibre-optic beam is split between customers on a segment of the network causing contention, Truespeed’s Active Ethernet network delivers a dedicated 10Gbps […]
Openreach engineers will use ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology for the first time to help minimise disruption and speed up the deployment of cutting-edge Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband infrastructure (FTTP) in Salisbury. Using GPR allows Openreach’s engineers to see and map out a clear route for its new cables without any drilling, probing or digging. That means […]
Three broadband equipment vendors – Emtelle, HellermannTyton and Senko Advanced Components — have revealed the fruits of a collaborative project and launched a brand-new solution into the Fibre-to-the-X (FTTX) market. Unveiled at the Emtelle booth on the first day of ANGA COM in Cologne, the three companies explained the collaboration and the benefits of FibreTap, […]
Broadband access solutions provider Iskratel is claiming that an important milestone in enabling operators to deploy carrier-grade, virtualised PON solutions has been reached with its launched of a complete, integrated Software-Defined PON (SD-PON) solution, leveraging Radisys’s SD-PON framework for broadband access disaggregation. Based on open-community initiatives and the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) CORD architecture, the […]
During its General Assembly, the FTTH Council Europe formally adopted its working programme and announced the results of the annual election of its President, Board members and Working Committee Chairs. As the European elections just took place, with a new Parliament soon entering into office and a new College of European Commissioners to be appointed […]
A report has revealed that the UK’s independent network providers (altnets) increased full-fibre coverage by 30 per cent in 2018, reaching almost 1.3 million premises. Compiled for the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) by Point Topic, using data from independent network operators, the report – ‘Metrics for the UK independent network sector’ – puts the […]
Companies laying high-speed fibre cables for broadband and mobile networks will benefit from greater access to Openreach’s telegraph poles and underground tunnels, under draft decisions announced by communications regulator Ofcom. Openreach, which maintains the UK’s main broadband network, is already required to let rival companies use its telegraph poles and underground ‘ducts’ to lay their […]
The starting gun has been fired on a programme to roll out gigabit-capable full fibre broadband to the most rural and remote locations in the UK, Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright has announced. In the summer of 2018, the UK Government identified that approximately 10 per cent of UK premises, largely in rural and remote areas, […]