Fibre Speeds and service

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Hi Fellow Spammers :) I was reading an artical in a P.C mag about Fibre Broadband and they were saying that instead of companies like BT & Virgin Media going all out to double everyones speeds why not just work at getting a stable Fibre service across the UK ? They said stick to the speed of 40meg and connect up the UK first then when this is running great start to double everyones speed what you get now is different speeds all over the UK rangeing from 10meg up to 110meg and higher soon any views on this ?
 
There are two sides to this:

1. People like me who have only just got ADSL2+. In my opinion, you shouldn't get people "left behind" whilst the inner cities get 100MBit.

2. But on the other side, both BT and Virgin have to make a profit, and the profit is in supplying fast broadband to where there are large concentrations of people.
 
It's more expensive to roll out fibre to everyone as they need to dig up and lay down the fibre, on the other hand places with fibre already are much cheaper to double as it's usually an upgrade to the software/equipment as the fibre is very future proof. Not sure now but a few years back I heard the fibre was capable of of up to 1gb speeds. Just need to sort out the equipment on both ends...
 
It's largely because upgrading current customers on to a faster network is FAR cheaper than installing new fibre in order to connect new customers.

Particularly in the case of BT Infinity, all they have to do is actually enable a new 17a frequency range on their equipment (it was previously a prohibited frequency in the UK) and BOOM a new source of revenue for no reasonable cost.
 
It's more expensive to roll out fibre to everyone as they need to dig up and lay down the fibre, on the other hand places with fibre already are much cheaper to double as it's usually an upgrade to the software/equipment as the fibre is very future proof. Not sure now but a few years back I heard the fibre was capable of of up to 1gb speeds. Just need to sort out the equipment on both ends...

Theoretically, an individual strand of fibre can manage speeds of 1Tbps but finding the equipment that can handle that is quite difficult :p
 
Theoretically, an individual strand of fibre can manage speeds of 1Tbps but finding the equipment that can handle that is quite difficult :p

It isn't. Just expensive, and currently a individual strand of fibre can't. A PAIR can handle 160 wavelengths with the latest DWDM gear, 10Gig over each gets out 1.6TB/s. There is 40 and 100Gig linbe cards out there for backbone routers but they're relatively untested over long distance spans and far far more expensive currently than just using additional 10Gig via additional wavelength or pairs. If you're laying one pair you may as well lay 100, the cost is pretty well identical at that level.
 
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