+ - High-speed fiber broadband kit on show
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An anonymous reader writes "A mass rollout of superfast fiber broadband is heading for Britain as incumbent telco BT splashes £2.5bn to roll out fiber access to two-thirds of the nation by 2015. While not quite an engineering feat to rival the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, say, the process is going to keep scores of BT engineers busy for the foreseeable future — using fusion splicing machines to fuse fibers to splitters and compressed air to blow fiber bundles through sub-ducts to get the lines where they need to go.
A quarter of BT's rollout will consist of fiber to the home (FTTH) broadband — a technology that takes fiber line into each individual premise and supports download speeds of up to 100Mbps. Fiber to the street cabinet (FTTC) will make up the rest of the rollout, supporting 40Mbps. FTTH requires various pieces of extra kit to be incorporated into the network topology — see this story for an explanation of the extra stages involved — and engineers to 'rod and rope' fiber cable through underground ducts by hand."
A quarter of BT's rollout will consist of fiber to the home (FTTH) broadband — a technology that takes fiber line into each individual premise and supports download speeds of up to 100Mbps. Fiber to the street cabinet (FTTC) will make up the rest of the rollout, supporting 40Mbps. FTTH requires various pieces of extra kit to be incorporated into the network topology — see this story for an explanation of the extra stages involved — and engineers to 'rod and rope' fiber cable through underground ducts by hand."
