Fujitsu Plans 1Gbps Fiber Optic Network for Rural Britain

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Living in a smaller, or shall we say a more compact country, can have its perks when it comes to high speed internet connections. Google is wiring up cities in the US, so Fujitsu plays the one-upmanship card and wires up a country. Rural Britain is about to be wired with 1Gps fiber optic broadband right out of the gate.

The network, which is being built using Cisco hardware and in collaboration with Virgin Media and TalkTalk, will offer 1Gbps symmetrical bandwidth from day one, with the potential to go to 10Gbps and beyond in the future.
 
I'm going to PRAY that this isn't BS.

I've have Up To 8Mbit on a BT line (with Sky, my mums choice not mine unfortunately) but get 0.5Mbit during the day if we're lucky, and 6Mbit at night.

We've been waiting just to get upgraded to ADSL2+ for the pat 6 or 7 years, or hell, even just get our exchange unbundled!

Luckily I'm living in Dundee for university and I'm getting decent internet here atm (25Mbit fibre in student halls) and next year it'll be 24Mbit ADSL2+ between 5 .
 
... and the cap will be 10GB :D
Nah... 15GB at least!

That said, I don't find it the size of these countries that are the issue, nothing says the whole US needs to have fiber to every door. We have concentrations of cities just like other parts of the world, if they really wanted to lay down 1Gbps lines then could, but that would be too non-greedy
 
Man how I would loves me some fiber! Have to live with some 6mbps/512k DSL probably for the next 5 years.
 
/waits patiently for another two decades before this happen in the United States :rolleyes:
 
Shame it's only rural, which ok is a large percentage of the UK lol but i want it damn it.
 
man i would love it if fiber was all over the US, so far it seems to be in only the realy big cities :(
 
Shame it's only rural, which ok is a large percentage of the UK lol but i want it damn it.
Also, like every other broadband line in the UK (including current fibre) i expect there to be a few pricing options for capped + usage, capped speed only and one for unlimited.
 
I'm going to PRAY that this isn't BS.

I've have Up To 8Mbit on a BT line (with Sky, my mums choice not mine unfortunately) but get 0.5Mbit during the day if we're lucky, and 6Mbit at night.

We've been waiting just to get upgraded to ADSL2+ for the pat 6 or 7 years, or hell, even just get our exchange unbundled!

Luckily I'm living in Dundee for university and I'm getting decent internet here atm (25Mbit fibre in student halls) and next year it'll be 24Mbit ADSL2+ between 5 .

I'm with Sky at the moment ADSL 2+ and get 16-18 down 1 up. I do live in a large town however (Stevenage) and the exchange is in sprinting distance lol.
 
I'm going to PRAY that this isn't BS.

I've have Up To 8Mbit on a BT line (with Sky, my mums choice not mine unfortunately) but get 0.5Mbit during the day if we're lucky, and 6Mbit at night.

We've been waiting just to get upgraded to ADSL2+ for the pat 6 or 7 years, or hell, even just get our exchange unbundled!

Luckily I'm living in Dundee for university and I'm getting decent internet here atm (25Mbit fibre in student halls) and next year it'll be 24Mbit ADSL2+ between 5 .

I'm with Sky at the moment ADSL 2+ and get 16-18 down 1 up. I do live in a large town however (Stevenage) and the exchange is in sprinting distance lol.

Yeah, Sky Connect is just BT's shitty, heavily shaped product with Sky branding, if and when Sky do get a presence in your exchange I think youd be hapy with them. Full (for your line) speed 24/7, no caps, and if you do have a problem, their tech support is pretty good too.

As for caps on this new proposed network, I live in a fairly big town and we still can't get Virgin, but I had a friend who was on their FTTC service in Birmingham and he couldn't sing its praises high enough, they never once complained about the significant amount of 'linux' he downloaded, and in fact were one of the few ISP's who told ACS Law (The speculative invoicing firm who got ddosed to oblivion by anonymous) to go to hell.
 
I'm all for improved internet infrastructure but why start out at 1gbps? Doesn't that remove a lot of margin that you can play around with?

Why not say, 100mbps? Then you can slow increase it over time. Unless I'm missing something.
 
Now what I wants is the hector two roof lights, with the discover cushions and the matching side stripe caravan.
 
The annoying thing is masses of fiber was layed nationally in the UK over 15 years ago. A massive fast network to take us into the 21st century.

It was a huge operation. But at the last minute the final part of the deal fell through and it was all abandonded and forgotten. All probably at the tax payers expense.

Most of us have been stuck with copper (or even worse aluminium) ever since.
 
"1Gbps symmetrical bandwidth"
Wow!
It's going to be nice having seeders across the pond.for our Linux distros... :)
 
I'd be fine with a 10 Mbit line here! I'm on 1.5... :(
Stupid rural bs.
 
The annoying thing is masses of fiber was layed nationally in the UK over 15 years ago. A massive fast network to take us into the 21st century.

It was a huge operation. But at the last minute the final part of the deal fell through and it was all abandonded and forgotten. All probably at the tax payers expense.

Most of us have been stuck with copper (or even worse aluminium) ever since.

That was just NTL being shit, i don't think we payed anything for it. Apart from that there isn't really any fibre network out there until BT infinity which is FTTC i do believe.
 
My your optimistic.

Well I've lived relatively in the same area for 30 years. It was only about 8 years ago Verizon (now Frontier) CO added CALLER ID! Frontier FINALLY put new copper in and now offers DSL - which I'll be trying the 21st (only at a whopping 3mb/1mb). They spent all that time and money for directional boring just to put copper in vs fiber.

Oh btw 2 miles away Cable has been in the ground for about 18 years - would Comcast extend service - NO because they want 20 homes per mile before they'll do so. Well where I live there is legislation regarding minimum property size to preserve rural areas - you must have 5 acres minimum. So essentially this area will NEVER meet Comcast's requirement.

Frontier wouldn't have even put in new copper if it wasn't for stimulus money they received from the government.

And no I don't live in the backwoods or mountains I'm an hour outside of Detroit. For those of you who have Fiber - congrats to you. BTW I don't consider Chattanooga rural.

I'm a pessimist because of all the money this country has pissed away time and time again on stupid $hit vs improving our infrastructures. Best country in the world (thought by a lot of foreigners) yet here's your dialup internet LOL. F#ck where's my rotary phone to call the president!?
 
I'm all for improved internet infrastructure but why start out at 1gbps? Doesn't that remove a lot of margin that you can play around with?

Why not say, 100mbps? Then you can slow increase it over time. Unless I'm missing something.
100mbps has been available for a while on Virgin Media.
 
Sweet. I live in rural Britain, and have been struggling on 2Mbit for too damn long! Now I'll finally be able to broadcast a live stream of the local pig farms :ccol:
 
Sweet. I live in rural Britain, and have been struggling on 2Mbit for too damn long! Now I'll finally be able to broadcast a live stream of the local pig farms :ccol:

2 meg, damn. I had freaking 10 meg with NTL in Burwell. Course maybe it was the proximity to Cambridge that helped.
 
2 meg, damn. I had freaking 10 meg with NTL in Burwell. Course maybe it was the proximity to Cambridge that helped.

Thats nothing, when I was at my gf's parents over Christmas, their 'BT Total Broadband (up to 8mb)' was getting 300k down, 350 up. :eek:

This is just 2.5 miles from the exchange.
 
That was back in 2003 though. I haven't been back to England since then, so haven't a clue how much better their infrastructure is.
 
A lot of folks moan about their ADSL speeds but I see many folks that have done the following -

Run the router off of two lots of ADSL filters and a phone socket splitter.

Run the router through to the study from the hallway phone socket using two 50ft phone extension cords.

Still had their bellwire attached.

Generally pull all that out and re-site the router running ethernet to the PC and that 1.5Mbps connection jumps to a 3-4Mbps one.

Every little helps.

Currently have a 18.5Mbps connection in rural city Norwich.
 
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