Ethernet Circuit

On roadworks.org, the following has appeared just down the road from me:

ETHERNET CIRCUIT- ONEAxxxxxxxx. OPP xxx, xxxx ROAD (x to remove detail)

From my business knowledge, this looks like a fibre circuit being installed for a business (there's a care home at the address).

My question is, does this bring fibre, and possible FTTPoD, closer to me, or not?

Short answer of NO

And the long answer?

I assume that they are bringing fibre to this location, so it would seem wasteful not to use the opportunity of dragging extra fibre to serve local properties given the move towards "fibre first".

Hi

It will be a point-to-point connection, it's not designed for sharing and uses a different technology to what BT Openreach install.

If you knew the company installing it and placed an order as well then just maybe your installation charges might be less, if they had spare fibres and could connect off the same run of cable, but monthly charges would be around £300.00 a month and typically a minimum 36 month contract.

Regards

Phil

Edited by deleted (Fri 07-Jun-19 11:06:45)

Long answer - NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO

Longer answer - the technology is completely different for lease lines and FTTP and therefore installing a lease line is not going to benefit anyone else. There are a large number of lease lines in and it makes absolutely no difference to the costs or deployment of fibre for FTTP.

This is what the single fibre network /one fibre network was designed to facilitate. Really depends on the available fibre network already present, if any, and the potential NGA demand. If a new spine is required then that makes SFN more likely, but it's more likely in brownfield developments

Spot on PhilipD, I have very recently been given a quote from a Cityfibre partner to install a gigabit capable line to my home-bsaed business, and the quoted figure was exactly 300 a month for 36 months (with a one off free of £150). This was further reduced to~270 a month taking into account the gigabit voucher scheme. And while the line was gigabit capable, this was only for 100mbps up/down. By the by, would it be possible, after that 36 month contract, to revert a residential offering from Cityfibres other partner Vodafone, I wonder.

Have you checked out linebroker.co.uk? You can get some competitive leased line quotes there provided you aren't in a rural area - cheaper than FTTPoD in some cases. However take the online checker results there with a pinch of salt, realistic quotes are given via phone (subject to site survey of course).

In reply to a post by vegito:

By the by, would it be possible, after that 36 month contract, to revert a residential offering from Cityfibres other partner Vodafone, I wonder.

No.

Would that gigabit capable line be ethernet ? Im unsure if city fibre would use their own equipment for leased lines or if they use Openreach like everyone else.
I manage ethernet orders for an ISP and I wouldn't reccomend getting ethernet installed at home. We get alot of complaints that the NTE is extremely loud when it turns out someone got it installed in their living room. Maybe look into getting EFM or EoFTTC, both will be cheaper, quieter and have shorter lead time.

You might not need ethernet at all if its just you working on it. When i check the usage on most businesses on a 100/100 line they barely go above 30mbps.