{"id":26740,"date":"2021-04-24T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=26740"},"modified":"2021-04-26T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T11:20:11","slug":"video-virgin-media-broadband-engineer-shows-how-it-all-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/video-virgin-media-broadband-engineer-shows-how-it-all-works.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Virgin Media Broadband Engineer Shows How it All Works UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Liberty Global&#8217;s principal UK engineers and technologists, Stephen Scott, has recently posted a series of new videos that offer a refreshingly detailed insight into the inner workings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) and Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP and TV network.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most of the videos like this that we see from other operators tend to be all flash and little substance, often consisting almost entirely of joyful background music (i.e. the type that becomes irritating after 10 seconds) and an endless stream of cringe worthy self-praise. As such it&#8217;s rare to see anybody producing one that actually provides a truly useful insight into how the underlying network is setup and actually works.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Stephen has done a series of three genuinely useful and informative videos &#8211; charting everything from the Headend (data centre) sites to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> based <strong>Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) and <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband lines at a high level. Admittedly these will make more sense if you already have a basic grasp of the technology, but they&#8217;re worth the time to view.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve tried to keep these in the correct sequence below, with the first video in the series being focused on the headend (data centre) sites, which the operator uses to serve cabinets and, ultimately, customers in surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LPRZOx4nCdg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=teeHiHNFE3E<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ukJStAJdwM<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 26th April 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been informed that the aforementioned videos are now in the process of being taken private because, we&#8217;re told, they were only ever intended to be used for internal training purposes (probably shouldn&#8217;t have uploaded them to YouTube then.. aye). 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