In reply to a post by adslmax:

Wrong.

It still using coax cable from cabinet to the home. It's not full Fibre. Never is.

Wrong. Around half will be full FTTP.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7404-virgin-media...
You really do come out with some nonsense.

In reply to a post by bowdon:

That's awesome news!

I wish VM would do more FTTP rollouts.

So how does VM manage to roll out FTTP with no exchanges?

I think I read that as far as Openreach is concerned fibre can transport data for 40km without the need for repeaters or anything. I'm no expert in fibre so I could have somehow misunderstood that. But it does give you some idea of how far Virgin can build from one of their network hub buildings.

Poor adslmax

Thanet has no cable VM presence.

The rollout will involve cabinets (distribution cabinets) but will be for fibre to the home.

The Project Lightning name is rather an umbrella name for VM's expansion and some areas will be cable/fibre mix with other areas being 100% fibre. It's entirely down to individual projects within the umbrella rollout.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

I think I read that as far as Openreach is concerned fibre can transport data for 40km without the need for repeaters or anything. I'm no expert in fibre so I could have somehow misunderstood that. But it does give you some idea of how far Virgin can build from one of their network hub buildings.

The 'hubs' are the powered cabinets mentioned. They take the place of the exchanges here.

In reply to a post by Yaz:

Poor adslmax

Thanet has no cable VM presence.

The rollout will involve cabinets (distribution cabinets) but will be for fibre to the home.

The Project Lightning name is rather an umbrella name for VM's expansion and some areas will be cable/fibre mix with other areas being 100% fibre. It's entirely down to individual projects within the umbrella rollout.

Oh boy.

He will be onto the Virgin Media CEO, Ofcom, Jehova, Allah and whomever else demanding VM overbuild the HFC in his area with FTTP.

Not happening just in case anyone was curious. The coax is good for 3 GHz or more, with not even 860 MHz of that being used.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by Icaras:

I think I read that as far as Openreach is concerned fibre can transport data for 40km without the need for repeaters or anything. I'm no expert in fibre so I could have somehow misunderstood that. But it does give you some idea of how far Virgin can build from one of their network hub buildings.

The 'hubs' are the powered cabinets mentioned. They take the place of the exchanges here.

Yeah I know that. But it all has to connect to a VM building eventually. There's a Virgin Media building on an industrial estate near me, I've heard it referred to as both a hubsite and switch site, I don't know what it's actually called. Either way that's where everything in a 10 mile or more direction ends up and that's what I was referring to.

In reply to a post by Icaras:

Yeah I know that. But it all has to connect to a VM building eventually. There's a Virgin Media building on an industrial estate near me, I've heard it referred to as both a hubsite and switch site, I don't know what it's actually called. Either way that's where everything in a 10 mile or more direction ends up and that's what I was referring to.

Yes, 'switch site' in old lingo, carrying a telco switch. They're more accurately called hubsites. They contain the CMTS that deal with broadband and the edge QAMs that convert the digital TV to RF for transport over the fibre on the HFC network. This doesn't need to happen on the FTTP, it can go all digital to the virtual hub cabinets then be demuxed and fed out of the OLT ports.

The hubs connect to regional headends which in turn connect to one of two super headends at Langley and Knowsley for digital TV signals and hubsites go to headends which connect to a pair of other headends for broadband / IP.

This thread has been very quiet lately but looking at roadworks.org I see that around the Hartsdown area in Margate, today and tomorrow about 24 new cabinets are due to be installed.

I can confirm FULL FTTP coming to Thanet, breaking ground in Garlinge/Hartsdown area next Monday and project end in August 2018.

Once the contractors have gone past your house its usually 2 months form that point for the service to be ready to purchase.

Any other info I can reply on here.

CLOKent,

How far is this rollout extending, will it go as far as surrounding villages, such as Manston and Minster/Monkton?

Cheers