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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 1 day, 16 hours ago · View
I thought that would be the case and I have to admit it gets me fiddling more nervously with my worry beads. ISPs vary from the dire to the excellent - you really do get what you pay for. Where in the commercial model is the cost of ongoing support personnel/infrastructure? I guess what I’m [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 1 day, 17 hours ago · View
(for example “who is the ISP?” opens a huge can of worms) Indeed it does! And it would be interesting to hear what the answer is. I think you raise some very valid points Aled. Quite apart from the technical and commercial challenges of building the infrastructure, there is also the ongoing support, potentially for [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
I thought that might be the case - at the time BRT owuld have been rolling out its fibre the future of that line was looking quite bleak. Interesting though that Network Rail has laid fibre and apparently has wayleave rights. I guess the BRT monopoly must have been broken somewhere along the line. I’ve [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
Barry, What I’m not clear about in all this is: who is the ISP? Do we set ourselves up as ISP or are we simply providing physical connectivity and users go with whatever ISP they wish who can provide services thereon? I’ve been with Zen for as long as we’ve had ADSL up here and [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 7 hours ago · View
Apropos of possible use of the Carlisle to Settle railway, I’m almost certain that Global Crossing will own the wayleaves. They’ll certainly be happy to lease some of their dark (or lit) fibre but I very much doubt they’ll let anyone else lay their own. Ownership: British Rail Telecommunications, bought out by Racal Telecom (I [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 8 hours ago · View
Surely there cannot be 100 people in the whole of the Eden Valley that actually WANT to watch X-factor?
Rather less flippantly, I realise that it is fairly easy to correctly size the backhaul (more accurately, it is something over which we have some control). I do wonder about the core backbone though: is [...] -
John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 8 hours ago · View
Indeed, Barry - I realise that video is the bandwidth driver and the sort of numbers being bandied about for the local loop will not be far short of the mark. But as you’ve very clearly shown in your article, there are numerous interwoven technical and commercial issues in a large, hilly low population density [...]
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John Linford posted an update in the group
Lyvennet Valley Community Broadband: 2 weeks, 1 day ago · ViewHello! Just joined after reading Rory’s mail-out. I think this is the group I belong to, geographically speaking - I am between Sleagill and Newby.
512kb/s (downstream) is about as good as it gets here, being on a long local loop from the Morland exchange. FTTH or wireless are the only likely solutions that I can see for faster access here and FTTH is very unlikely any time soon. Even wireless could be a bit of a topological challenge, although I do live on top of a hill…
It’s my own fault for living out in the boonies - but I like it here!
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 1 day, 16 hours ago · View
I thought that would be the case and I have to admit it gets me fiddling more nervously with my worry beads. ISPs vary from the dire to the excellent - you really do get what you pay for. Where in the commercial model is the cost of ongoing support personnel/infrastructure? I guess what I’m [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 1 day, 17 hours ago · View
(for example “who is the ISP?” opens a huge can of worms) Indeed it does! And it would be interesting to hear what the answer is. I think you raise some very valid points Aled. Quite apart from the technical and commercial challenges of building the infrastructure, there is also the ongoing support, potentially for [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
I thought that might be the case - at the time BRT owuld have been rolling out its fibre the future of that line was looking quite bleak. Interesting though that Network Rail has laid fibre and apparently has wayleave rights. I guess the BRT monopoly must have been broken somewhere along the line. I’ve [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
Barry, What I’m not clear about in all this is: who is the ISP? Do we set ourselves up as ISP or are we simply providing physical connectivity and users go with whatever ISP they wish who can provide services thereon? I’ve been with Zen for as long as we’ve had ADSL up here and [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 7 hours ago · View
Apropos of possible use of the Carlisle to Settle railway, I’m almost certain that Global Crossing will own the wayleaves. They’ll certainly be happy to lease some of their dark (or lit) fibre but I very much doubt they’ll let anyone else lay their own. Ownership: British Rail Telecommunications, bought out by Racal Telecom (I [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 8 hours ago · View
Surely there cannot be 100 people in the whole of the Eden Valley that actually WANT to watch X-factor?
Rather less flippantly, I realise that it is fairly easy to correctly size the backhaul (more accurately, it is something over which we have some control). I do wonder about the core backbone though: is [...]
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John Linford commented on the blog post Broadband, NGA, FTTC and the laws of unforeseen consequences 2 days, 8 hours ago · View
Indeed, Barry - I realise that video is the bandwidth driver and the sort of numbers being bandied about for the local loop will not be far short of the mark. But as you’ve very clearly shown in your article, there are numerous interwoven technical and commercial issues in a large, hilly low population density [...]
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John Linford posted an update in the group
Lyvennet Valley Community Broadband: 2 weeks, 1 day ago · ViewHello! Just joined after reading Rory’s mail-out. I think this is the group I belong to, geographically speaking - I am between Sleagill and Newby.
512kb/s (downstream) is about as good as it gets here, being on a long local loop from the Morland exchange. FTTH or wireless are the only likely solutions that I can see for faster access here and FTTH is very unlikely any time soon. Even wireless could be a bit of a topological challenge, although I do live on top of a hill…
It’s my own fault for living out in the boonies - but I like it here!
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