In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

Are you sure? That seems pretty short-sighted. 10gigE fiber cards only cost a few £100 more than gigabit ones.

GPON backhaul; that way you can use the same OLT for FTTC and FTTP.

No need for a shedload of cards, a single 4 port GPON interface board is perfectly adequate for 288 FTTC subscribers.

Edited by deleted (Tue 01-Apr-14 00:01:14)

Exactly. But others seemed to think otherwise.

Where does the Dark Matter come in to this???????????

Not prior to my original post but it doesn't matter. I was pointing out a small error that may have confused others. No biggy!

When will Virgin Media start to expanding upstream network to get more upstream?

They are but under a docsis systems there won't be much point from my point of view as it will always be shared.... And as uploading becomes more popular by the day the bandwidth applied will just be used up as it's increased so we won't see much improvement at our end.

Just less congestion maybe....

Edited by deleted (Wed 02-Apr-14 15:35:56)