{"id":27192,"date":"2021-06-05T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=27192"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:50:42","slug":"video-virtual-tour-of-fttp-broadband-with-bt-and-openreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/video-virtual-tour-of-fttp-broadband-with-bt-and-openreach.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO – Virtual Tour of FTTP Broadband with BT and Openreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openreach<\/a> and BT<\/a> (BTWholesale) have posted a useful and highly informative new video that cuts out the usual cosmetics in order to offer watchers an engineer\u2019s eye-view style tour of how their new gigabit-capable UK Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) broadband network is delivered – all the way from the exchange to the home.<\/p>\n

Often videos like this will be all flash and little substance, but on this occasion Openreach<\/a> appears to have asked their Regional Learning Manager in Bradford, Dominic Bottomley<\/strong>, to conduct somewhat of an unscripted overview of their network at one of the operator’s training facilities.<\/p>\n

The video shows you everything from the exchange (headend \/ ODF) to aggregation nodes, splitters, Connectorised Block Terminals (CBT) and then all the way to in-home Optical Network Terminal (ONT \/ ONU). Overall, it’s significantly more informative than most of the videos out there and well worth a watch if you want to understand how FTTP<\/a> works on Openreach<\/a>’s platform.<\/p>\n

The video itself is about 1 hour long, although the actual engineer\u2019s segment only runs for roughly half of that time (you can happily skip the first 3:06 minutes of the introduction as that’s mostly just the usual PR spin).<\/p>\n

\"Openreach_FTTP_Tour_2021\"<\/p>\n

As much of the video is indoors, seemingly inside a large warehouse, then there is a fair bit of background echo at times, which becomes fairly irritating after a period of watching (sadly they didn’t use an audio setup to cancel out the echo). At the end of the demo there’s also a Q&A segment, but you don’t need to watch that part.<\/p>\n

The video was actually posted a couple of months ago, but it somewhat flew under our radar until one of ISPreview’s readers (Credits to Ross) spotted it hiding on Vimeo.<\/p>\n