BT plans first all-fibre network in Oxfordshire village

[Simon]

BT hopes to learn about future challenges of running an all fibre network after announcing an ultrafast broadband trial in the the sleepy Oxfordshire town of Deddington.

According to BT, it's the first time the company has rolled-out a fibre-only network and the trial should provide the UK's fastest broadband, with fibre to the home (FTTH) connections of up to 300Mbits/sec.

The company said the pilot, which will initially be run alongside the copper infrastructure, would help them study how fibre networks worked, with the technology seen as a longterm replacement for copper.

With an exchange serving 1,400 homes and businesses, BT said the area was the right size to assess a network in a living environment.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/373831/bt-plans-first-all-fibre-network-in-oxfordshire-village#ixzz1qWMOYbqU

[Rik]

I wonder which director lives there?

[Simon]

Who cares?  I'm moving!   

[Rik]

We could get all the Netters to move too. Then we wouldn't need the forum and could have a natter at the pub instead. 

[Lance]

As long as the pub has wifi!

[Rik]

They wouldn't get the business otherwise.

[Simon]

As long as the pub has wifi!

Beer would be my priority. 

[Lance]

Why limit yourself to one?

[Simon]

I may not have been talking pints. 

[Lance]

I was talking priorities!

[Rik]

I was thinking bar food. 

[Simon]

Never!   

[Rik]

Always.

[Lance]

I never thought I would see Rik write that!

[Rik]

Confession is good for the soul, Lance.

[pctech]

I thought BT's main backbone was fibre so why is it a challenge for them.

Maybe they ought to enlist the assistance of one of the net's backbone providers that have always used fibre such as Level 3 or Hurricane Electric or even errr, Cogent if they must.