Netomnia Improves UK Full Fibre Network Testing and Monitoring

Alternative network operator Netomnia (Brsk, Youfibre), which has so far rolled out their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 2.5 million UK homes (inc. 325,000 customers), has today become the latest provider to adopt VIAVI’s ONMSi Remote Fibre Test System (RFTS) to “simplify and accelerate network installation and ongoing maintenance“.

At present, Netomnia is continuing to expand their network coverage by around 1 million premises per year, and they expect to reach 3 million premises by the end of 2025 and then 5 million by the end of 2027 (inc. 1 million customers by 2028). The service is currently available across parts of over 90 UK cities and towns. But keeping a close eye on such a large network can be difficult, which is where VIAVI’s system comes in.

The use of an effective remote fibre testing and monitoring system can help to verify the quality of Netomnia’s network during its roll-out and operation. In addition, it can also make it simpler and easier for their engineers to respond to the exact location when an issue (faults etc.) does arise. A number of other network operators have also adopted the same solution from VIAVI.

“The VIAVI OMNSi test system provides a platform on which we can construct a gold standard network,” said Jeremy Chelot, Group CEO of Netomnia, YouFibre and brsk. “The remote fibre test system is a critical element in enabling us to reach our ambitious goal to deploy a high-quality network covering five million premises and over 150 exchanges by the end of 2027.”