Re:Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months
by tialaramex on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:41AM
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> 3) Fibre to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange (FTTP)
FTTP doesn't bother going to a cabinet at all since there would be nothing interesting for it to do there. GPON splitters are low maintenance and so you can just throw one up on a telegraph pole or bury it.
Yes this means that an era of street cabinets gives way to an era in which it's just telegraph poles or the network infrastructure disappears entirely, buried in the street.
> Cable TV is a minority thing in the UK, maybe 20% of TV owning households.
This may well be, however over 50% of UK households could buy their Internet service from Virgin (the Cable TV company) and get DOCSIS over that coaxial cable, they needn't choose to buy television service (although of course Virgin would like them to do so)
Most of the UK, especially outside of large towns, is
1) Twisted pair to the cabinet then Twisted pair to the exchange ("Normal DSL", ADSL)
2) Twisted pair to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange ("Fibre broadband", FTTC)
3) Fibre to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange (FTTP)
Cable TV is a minority thing in the UK, maybe 20% of TV owning households, compared with 50% on satelite of some sort, and 95% on terrestial.