Since announcing plans to bring fibre to the Great Thornton Street Estate in Hull, we’ve been inundated with emails asking us to do the same elsewhere in the city and across the country too.
If you want us to bring service to your community, and if you can prove there is sufficient demand, then we will [...]
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Humber Bridge Revisited
A comparison between hope and reality for river bridging and its relevance for next-gen in and around a North-East Coastal City today.
According to http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18b.43102.h and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge the Humber Bridge actually cost around £100M on completion in 1981 and, through the magic of compound interest, this represents a debt of £300M+ today that will still [...]
FiWi – A Definition
FiWi is a convenient term to express the natural and complimentary nature of the Fibre and Wireless technologies that together create the infrastructure platform for Next Generation Access.
Each technology has its own merits:
Fibre to the Home (FttH) provides future-proofed fixed access
Wireless provides mobility and temporary or nomadic access
Each technology can also provide mutual redundancy, so [...]
Do We Need Commitment in the Next Gen World?
Had an interesting debate today with a long standing ally in the Next Gen Access movement.
The discussion centred on whether CIR (Committed Information Rate) is relevant in a Next Gen World, or whether instead the capacity of eNdGAme FttH infrastructure is sufficient to allow effective QoS (Quality of Service) delivery for time-sensitive applications, eg. voice, [...]
Day One Impressions – FttH Council Conference Copenhagen
Fantastic delegate turnout and a great social networking event, notwithstanding the guilty feeling of having expended all that CO2 in getting everyone here….
Still once we all have pervasive FttH then we can all meet virtually
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Back in June 2008, I left the UK BSG Next-Gen conference with a sense that Mutual asset ownership was [...]
What Next-gen Role For Today’s ISP?
From a consumer perspective, a fixed internet service is just that, something that connects their home/workplace to other internet service consumers and content providers
Hmm Consumer vs Provider – there are two separate things happening here – Content and Connectivity – in the voice world, Calls and Dialtone
As far as internet service provision is concerned, in [...]