Fibre to the Outlet?

I can't find any information on this, just a YouTube video that looks like something a trial installation team made themselves and a few hits in LinkedIn where staff talk about being FTTO trained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlQTCZkeYU

At a guess the idea is to get closer towards compatibility with a move to PON by having the fibre on the correct side of an external wall, and either lining people up for self-install or at least an engineer install without any external work or drilling required.

The way the fibre is managed into the ONU looks pretty poor but I assume that's a side effect of using pre-terminated cabling and having to provide somewhere for the slack to end up.

In reply to a post by jpm:

At a guess the idea is to get closer towards compatibility with a move to PON by having the fibre on the correct side of an external wall, and either lining people up for self-install or at least an engineer install without any external work or drilling required.

You'll find a lot of talk on this forum about RFoG areas, that is this. Radio Frequency over Glass. This isn't PON.

The reason, as you say, is to keep the consumer products internally to the home the same as in the older coax areas. The RFoG allows the radio frequency transmissions to occur over the glass fibre, and then convert back to radio at the home. Then the existing cable modem and TV services operate identically to elsewhere in the country.

VM are starting to look at PON, but that would be for internet, and maybe TV over internet, instead of TV over RF.

Might have been unclear, I am aware this is still RFoG but getting the fibre inside the house rather than converting it on the outside must be something that they are doing with a PON transition in mind.

I've not seen any pictures of this type of VM install before, I have no idea if it's a trial or not or just the "new" way they are doing things.

Edited by jpm (Sat 04-Mar-23 17:38:36)

In reply to a post by jpm:

I've not seen any pictures of this type of VM install before, I have no idea if it's a trial or not or just the "new" way they are doing things.

Always possible, or could be upto the individual installer?

From reading various VM forums this past while, I've gathered this is a trial way of installing fibre to the Hub. But I'm not sure if running fibre cable around the house is a good idea, as it's kinda fragile? There are posts of users animals chewing such cables etc. .....

In reply to a post by Adduxi:

From reading various VM forums this past while, I've gathered this is a trial way of installing fibre to the Hub. But I'm not sure if running fibre cable around the house is a good idea, as it's kinda fragile? There are posts of users animals chewing such cables etc. .....

It's no different to how almost every other FTTP provider does things.
It isn't a long run of internal fibre. Just from the entry point to the ONT/ONU.
From there it's coax to the Virgin Hub and eventually will be changed to ethernet to a hub when DOCSIS is dropped for XGS-PON.