Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Wed Feb 13 17:30:01 UTC 2013

Sadly, despite this being challenged with both the telecoms regulator (Ofcom) and advertising watchdog (ASA), for some reason both seem pretty happy with the utter farce that is advertising BT/OpenReach's VDSL based Fibre To The Cabinet and Virgin Media's Hybrid Fibre Coax networks as "fibre optic broadband".

We have a very small amount of Fibre To The Home/Fibre To The Premise being deployed by BT/Openreach using some kind of PON technology, but I'm not sure which variant off-hand.

We were supposed to be getting FTTP where I live last March, but for some reason BT silently scrapped that plan and now we are getting FTTC this March apparently... I'm not going to hold my breath though!

Edward Dore 
Freethought Internet 

On 13 Feb 2013, at 15:07, Mike Jones wrote:

> On 13 February 2013 12:34, Scott Helms <khelms at zcorum.com> wrote:
>> Using the UK as a model for US and Canadian deployments is a fallacy.
> 
> I don't believe anyone was looking at the UK model? But now that you
> mention it the UK has a rather interesting model for fibre deployment,
> a significant portion of the country has "fibre optic broadband"
> avaliable from multiple providers.
> 
> BT Openreach (and others on their infrastructure) offer "Fibre Optic
> Broadband" over twisted pair, and VirginMedia offer "Fibre Optic
> Broadband" over coax.
> 
> The UKs 'just pretend it's fibre' deployment method is cheaper than
> both PON and SS. Only requirement is that you have a regulator that
> doesn't care when companies flat out lie to customers.
> 
> - Mike
> 