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Originally Posted by Pierre
Most of the new FTTN network enjoyed in Dublin was built when it was owned by NTL.
The original cable network in Dublin was a narrowband copper network strung from house to house.
We flogged it to finance the telewest merger, I used to like my trips to Dublin.
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Originally Posted by Broadbandings
Not bad given that to do it they have had to literally rebuild nearly all the network where they are offering HSI services right down to pulling out the cables and replacing them.
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Dublin yes, rest of the network no. Apart from Dublin, part of which was done properly broadband was released to Galway and Waterford incredibly on the cheap. CMTS with a single 100Mbit backhaul, 1 1.6MHz QPSK upstream only available per node. Very little upgrade work at all outside of Dublin and Galway / Waterford were bodged into broadband more than 'upgraded'.
Should be mentioned that all the network was a 'narrowband copper network' though it wasn't actually all narrowband copper, digital TV was deployed on bits with no home to home cable upgrade, and ntl released broadband onto some network which had no fibre to its' nodes. I believe those were the deployments onto Galway and Waterford which were pretty unreliable and on only 25MHz upstream subsplit.
In any event, ntl 'overbuilt' as I dislike counting Galway / Waterford, about 130,000 homes in nearly 6 years, UPC have overbuilt a further 420,000 homes in 4 years along with rebuilding some of ntl's 'upgrades' to full triple play, so overbuilt 3.5 - 4 times the ntl deployment.
It would rock if VM offered the 10/1 and 20/1.5 services UPC are, especially given they are STM free. In lieu of that UPC send
these to people who do >250GB/month on crowded nodes, but crowded nodes only. Perhaps if VM did this it'd reduce congestion a bit.
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