100Mbps For Ireland This Summer

[Ignitionnet]

Yessir!

At the moment they have:

5Mbit/512kbit
15Mbit/1.5Mbit
30Mbit/3Mbit

This will be joined by a 100Mbit/10Mbit service - they've been rebuilding their network with a fibre deep architecture - no amplifiers in between fibre optics and people's homes just fibre and some coax meaning there are less homes sharing bandwidth and they push the network more aggressively for higher upstreams.

Luck of the Irish!

[Sasha222]

What are we getting over here in Ireland. Sorry dont know the tecinal terms your using. Is it for broadband

---------- Post added at 22:20 ---------- Previous post was at 22:15 ----------

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Yessir!

At the moment they have:

5Mbit/512kbit
15Mbit/1.5Mbit
30Mbit/3Mbit

This will be joined by a 100Mbit/10Mbit service - they've been rebuilding their network with a fibre deep architecture - no amplifiers in between fibre optics and people's homes just fibre and some coax meaning there are less homes sharing bandwidth and they push the network more aggressively for higher upstreams.

Luck of the Irish!

Opps sorry only Just nobiced your link to explain it. Im :sleepey at the moment so didn't notice it

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Yessir!

fibre deep architecture -

thats a good start



A whole new light, growing brighter!

The site is experiencing difficulties. Please try your request again. If you continue to have problems please email the

[Ignitionnet]

Just as well their fibre kit works better than their website

[weesteev]

UPC isnt changing its network in Ireland, its only upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0 across its existing footprint. UPC has had issues with its network coverage for many years, even when it was owned by NTL there were service black spots and built but "unlit" areas.

What UPC is doing though is starting to trial a FTTH service like most cable providers around Europe, but the move from an HFC to a pure Fibre network is unlikely in the near future with the recent developments in DOCSIS 3.0, including successful upstream channel bonding from Motorola and Cisco.

UPC is going to run this newer "Fibre Deep" product to new build expansion areas but it wont offer different products as the network transmission will still be DOCSIS 3.0. This is already what happens in Holland where UPC also has a major cable subsiduary which uses a mix of HFC and FTTH and all offering the same products.

I have a friend working for the contractors in Cork and even in their new build areas UPC are still rolling out HFC, so I wouldn't always believe what you read in the media!

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by weesteev

UPC isnt changing its network in Ireland, its only upgrading to DOCSIS 3.0 across its existing footprint. UPC has had issues with its network coverage for many years, even when it was owned by NTL there were service black spots and built but "unlit" areas.

What UPC is doing though is starting to trial a FTTH service like most cable providers around Europe, but the move from an HFC to a pure Fibre network is unlikely in the near future with the recent developments in DOCSIS 3.0, including successful upstream channel bonding from Motorola and Cisco.

UPC is going to run this newer "Fibre Deep" product to new build expansion areas but it wont offer different products as the network transmission will still be DOCSIS 3.0. This is already what happens in Holland where UPC also has a major cable subsiduary which uses a mix of HFC and FTTH and all offering the same products.

I have a friend working for the contractors in Cork and even in their new build areas UPC are still rolling out HFC, so I wouldn't always believe what you read in the media!

Fibre deep is HFC. At your convenience do have a read of the docs as you appear to be under the impression the architecture is RFoG which isn't the case. It's an extremely high performance HFC network but it is still coaxial in part.

UPC Ireland have done extensive overbuilding of extremely old analogue one-way networks and continue to do so, right down to literally replacing the lines running along people's homes. Quite a change of network taking old <300MHz analogue networks and rebuilding them to fibre deep 860MHz+ EuroDOCSIS HFC in my opinion!

UPC Netherlands are HFC throughout.

Check http://www.upc.nl and http://www.chelloo.com/ for more information on UPC Netherlands, try not to confuse their product name 'Fibre Power' with the network architecture 'Fibre Deep' as you appear to have above.

For more on Fibre Deep HFC networks, which have been being installed since 2005, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fiber+deep