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FTTH upgrade scheduleDoes bell have any schedule that details when FTTH will be available in different areas? |
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Crzyrio join:2007-02-01 Mississauga, ON |
said by steve88:Does bell have any schedule that details when FTTH will be available in different areas? +1 Would love to know as well. I just received FTTN and would love the extra upload speed. |
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No schedule. Even the investors don't receive info on where is getting it other than how much it would cost. Its kept under wraps until you start seeing a flurry of bell vans & trucks around. If youve got a good eye you can start seeing locates being done a couple weeks a head of time while youre driving around the city.
As for Crzyrio, ftth roll out will be on a similar schedule to what you got with FTTN. The furthest houses from the CO will be done first and the closest last (if at all with FTTH). So if you were one of the last roads of developments to get FTTN You'll be one of the last to get FTTH. Other factors do play a role in whether it will happen at all even such as is FTTN available, how many potential subscribers, ROI, is the a cable company in the area (this is a big one, 100% target audience if no cableco) and probably most importantly aerial vs buried plant |
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Gone Premium Member join:2011-01-24 Fort Erie, ON |
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2014-Jul-4 1:09 pm
said by btech805:As for Crzyrio, ftth roll out will be on a similar schedule to what you got with FTTN. The furthest houses from the CO will be done first and the closest last After watching what is going on in Fort Erie, this certainly seems to be the case. They started at opposite ends of town and are working inward toward the middle where the CO is located. |
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spoke with a tech installing FTTH the other day- hitting up all of London right now- called and they said orders available in 2 months |
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sm5w2 Premium Member join:2004-10-13 St Thomas, ON |
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Has Bell ever installed FTTH in a neighborhood (an OLD neighborhood, not new construction) where all the infrastructure is burried - including bell copper, electric, and cable?
I'm seeing new boxes being installed beside OPI's or "J-wee's" (not sure what the difference is) around Westmount here in London. One box that was open had a pair of 7330's (aram-D) that was being fed with 2 optical cables each about the size of RG-6 (but I'm told each had 12 fibers in them).
I'm told that Bell is pruning the lines to keep each run 900 meters or less. I'm hearing different top-end numbers as to what sort of speed someone on copper can have when connected to these 7330's. Is it 25, 50 or 75 mbps?
If someone is connected to one of these 7330's via 1 (or 2?) copper pairs, with a length of, say, 500 meters or less, is there any practical difference between connection speed with that vs FTTH?
Each 7330 can connect to (at most) 192 homes or end-customers - yes? |
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I believe Gone can see that theyre doing ftth in existing buried areas in Fort Erie right now. However what you are describing is FTTN.
The work theyre doing now is called grooming which cleans up splices and removes bridge taps to shorten distances to somewhere around 1km, however certain older areas may still have longer loops.
The maximum speed we sell currently for FTTN is 50/10+tv which is approximately 70-75/11. Internet only the maximum we'll sell is 50/10. This is all based on distance though and you may not qualify for all speeds at the end of it. Hooked up directly to a 7330 in the cross box I can see sync rates of 130-150/40, start adding copper though and it starts diminishing after about 100m, hence why 50/10 is the max.
For internet only, currently it is served over 1 pair, for tv customers that either have longer loops (up to 1.8km, depending on guage of wire) we will use 2 bonded pairs to deliver iptv, and over shorter loops we now use 2 bonded pairs to offer 50/10+tv for customers who could only get 25/10+tv before.
Each 7330 card can connect to 48 customers. |
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Gone Premium Member join:2011-01-24 Fort Erie, ON |
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2014-Jul-6 11:09 pm
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They're definitely doing buried fibre in Fort Erie, and they've already got the conduit installed in front of my mother's house. Most of this town is aerial, though. Probably makes more economic sense to bury fibre in the few portions of town that are underground than to rebuild everything and split off the underground areas for FTTN which will eventually have to be upgraded again in 5-10 years anyway.
The real interesting thing though is that in some areas that were aerial copper telephone wires they've put conduit and peds for buried fibre. |
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