{"id":28860,"date":"2021-10-13T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=28860"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:26:02","slug":"virgin-media-o2-uk-conducts-third-2-2gbps-broadband-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-uk-conducts-third-2-2gbps-broadband-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 UK Conducts Third 2.2Gbps Broadband Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) has confirmed that they&#8217;ve conducted a third trial of 2.2Gbps download speeds on their upgraded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 network, which this time took place in the cities of Edinburgh and Birmingham. Previous trials took place in the town of Thatcham and parts of Southampton and Manchester (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/09\/virgin-media-uk-trials-2-2gbps-broadband-to-homes-in-berkshire.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/new-virgin-media-uk-trial-hits-2-2gbps-broadband-speed-again.html\">here<\/a>).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the operator is in the final throes of upgrading their existing <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 network to support the D3.1 standard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/virgin-media-o2-bring-1gbps-broadband-to-12-8-million-uk-homes.html\">here<\/a>), which has pushed top download speeds of <strong>1,130Mbps<\/strong> to be within reach of 12.8 million UK premises (this up from a top speed of c.630Mbps under their old EuroDOCSIS 3.0 standard). Only around 2-3 million premises are left to completed by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> D3.1 utilises enhancements like Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), which can encode data by using multiple carrier frequencies, and boosts the amount of radio spectrum up to 200MHz. This also supports other enhancements, like Distributed Access Architecture \/ Remote Phy (R-PHY) \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/virgin-media-start-uk-rollout-of-remote-phy-to-improve-network.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/virgin-media-uk-trial-telestes-distributed-access-architecture.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve said before, the D3.1 standard is theoretically capable of achieving peak downstream speeds of up to 10Gbps and 2Gbps upload, which means that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has scope to push beyond 1Gbps in the future to help keep pace with rivals; at least until they can complete their wider upgrade to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> by the end of 2028 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/virgin-media-o2-to-replace-existing-uk-network-with-full-fibre.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The latest trial in <strong>Edinburgh<\/strong> and <strong>Birmingham<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t appear to have done anything different from the previous trials, which makes us think that this may be more about reassuring investors that they&#8217;ll be able to keep pace until full fibre is ready.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Jeanie York, VMO2&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are on a mission to upgrade the UK and our continued network investment is helping ensure our infrastructure is not only fit for today, but fit for the future.<\/p>\n<p>As the UK\u2019s largest gigabit broadband provider, we\u2019re always looking to go further and faster. With our latest multi-gigabit trial in Birmingham and Edinburgh, we\u2019re putting this commitment to innovation into action, demonstrating the true power of our network and getting ready for the technology of tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One possible problem here is that today&#8217;s announcement makes no mention of upload speeds for the trial, which is one area where VMO2 have traditionally struggled. The original 2.2Gbps trial actually managed to attain a respectable upload speed of 214Mbps (average) by applying D3.1 to the upstream channels.<\/p>\n<p>However, VMO2&#8217;s second trial, which took place earlier this year, only used D3.0 for upstream and so dropped back to c.50Mbps. We strongly suspect that this trial may also be 50Mbps and are trying to confirm. VMO2 would need to spend a bit more time and money to deploy D3.1 across upstream, and it&#8217;s presently unclear whether or when they&#8217;ll do that.<\/p>\n<p>As with the previous trials, this one also made use of their latest <strong>HUB 4.0<\/strong> (<em>TG3492LG-VMB<\/em> \/ <em>Gigabit Connect Box<\/em>) router, and you can see the specification for that at the bottom of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/revealed-expected-price-of-virgin-medias-uk-1gbps-broadband.html\">this article<\/a>. The HUB 4.0 is VM\u2019s only router with D3.1 support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 4:25pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve confirmed that the upstream remains limited to c.50Mbps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK ISP Virgin Media (VMO2) has confirmed that they&#8217;ve conducted a third trial of 2.2Gbps download speeds on their upgraded DOCSIS 3.1 network, which this time took place in the cities of Edinburgh and Birmingham. 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