{"id":27446,"date":"2021-06-23T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=27446"},"modified":"2021-11-29T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T09:52:19","slug":"openreach-blows-fibre-3km-across-scotlands-forth-road-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/openreach-blows-fibre-3km-across-scotlands-forth-road-bridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Blows Fibre 3km Across Scotland&#8217;s Forth Road Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) engineers will today attempt to blow &#8211; at speeds of up to 60 metres per minute &#8211; one whole 3km stretch of 16mm fibre cable across Scotland&#8217;s Forth Road Bridge, which will enable their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband ISP network to cover premises in South and North Queensferry.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bridge itself, which connects Edinburgh, via the town of South Queensferry, to Fife via North Queensferry, is said to have originally opened in 1964. Back then it was often considered to be the longest suspension bridge in the world, outside the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s gigabit fibre network has already covered 4.8 million UK premises (1.9 million were added in 2020\/21), building at a rate of c.43,000 per week and now ramping up to a future peak of c.75,000 per week.<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the work on the Bridge itself, which took six months of planning and saw engineers<span lang=\"EN-US\"> work in enclosed steel tunnels under the Bridge&#8217;s footpaths to prepare ducts for the new fibre,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> have also built another 2km of fibre to the north approach (this cable contains 432 tiny glass fibres &#8211; each a tenth the size of a human hair), with the new network linking back to a main fibre hub site in Inverkeithing, Fife.<\/p>\n<p>All of this forms part of the operator&#8217;s wider \u00a315bn commercial build, which aims to cover 25 million UK premises by December 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/bt-raise-fttp-broadband-target-to-25-million-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/openreach-boost-rural-fttp-broadband-build-to-6m-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a>) &#8211; including 6.2 million in rural or semi-rural areas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s Area 3).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Katie Milligan, Chair of Openreach&#8217;s Scotland Board, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a unique moment for civil engineering in Scotland as two huge infrastructure projects come together. We\u2019re building a new ultrafast digital highway \u2013 and going across the Forth Road Bridge is the fastest, most direct way to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to join up spans of fibre on the Bridge, so it has to be done in one long piece. It\u2019s amazing to think that these tiny fibres will future-proof the internet for thousands of homes and businesses on the south side of the Bridge for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>This is a once-in-a-generation engineering task to make broadband fit for the future, and we\u2019re proud to be literally bridging the digital divide across this iconic landmark.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should point out that the bridge was designated a Category A listed structure in March 2001, thus access is now generally restricted to public traffic, cyclists and pedestrians following the launch of the new Queensferry Crossing in 2017 (you can see that one in the background of both pictures).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/bt-openreach-uk-illustrations\/Openreach-Engineers-Near-Forth-Road-Bridge-Scotland.jpg\" alt=\"Openreach-Engineers-Near-Forth-Road-Bridge-Scotland\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Openreach (BT) engineers will today attempt to blow &#8211; at speeds of up to 60 metres per minute &#8211; one whole 3km stretch of 16mm fibre cable across Scotland&#8217;s Forth Road Bridge, which will enable their new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover premises in South and North Queensferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,69,89],"class_list":["post-27446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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