Define tomorrow?

If fibre is so important you can buy it today, though at £1000 per month it is not economical for me. If it dropped to sub £125 then it would be considered, at under £60 a month I would buy without a second thought.

Speaking to a Openreach Engineer the other day, he said that the next stage that they were looking at was FTTP

The Brownfield FTTP areas I believe are `Mixed Ecconomy' meaning bothe FTTC and FTTP , but not both to the same location.

FTTC uses point to point fibre and FTTH (as being used by Openreach) uses GPON architecture, so going from FTTC to GPON is basicalling another network overlay.

ECI announcement that they are now also providing BT with fttc included wording that their solution allows the cab to be used for both copper and fibre to home (suspect special cards for each). Of course in future BT could just turn the cabs into dumb jumper cabinets and gpon from there?

I should have book-marked it, (I must have thought it was easy to re-find), but I recently saw what I remember as an Openreach diagram showing FTTC versus FTTP layouts for an hypothetical housing estate.

The major point made was that the FTTC cabinets are not required under FTTP - completely alien in fact. As I remember it they couldn't even be re-used, or at least their contents couldn't.

Google isn't helping me at the moment .

FTTH is useless in a power cut - when you might want to make a 999 call.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

FTTH is useless in a power cut - when you might want to make a 999 call.

Better ditch the whole idea then.

I'm sure there has to be a mechanism to get round that problem, though I cxan't think what. In fact IIRC it has already been resolved on these forums.

[mischief] By the time FTTP becomes widespread in this country we will all have satellite-linked comms chips implanted in our brains and be able to talk to the emergency services at will. They will even call automatically if we lose conciousness, with our exact GPS location.[/mischief].

Ummm - remember this idea. You heard it here first! If you are alive in 20 years time you might have such an implant.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1378635
http://aceengineers.publishpath.com/Websites/aceengi...

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

FTTH is useless in a power cut - when you might want to make a 999 call.

Better ditch the whole idea then.

I'm sure there has to be a mechanism to get round that problem, though I cxan't think what. In fact IIRC it has already been resolved on these forums.

[mischief] By the time FTTP becomes widespread in this country we will all have satellite-linked comms chips implanted in our brains and be able to talk to the emergency services at will. They will even call automatically if we lose conciousness, with our exact GPS location.[/mischief].

Ummm - remember this idea. You heard it here first! If you are alive in 20 years time you might have such an implant.

will we have flying cars before FTTP is mass spread?