{"id":32953,"date":"2022-11-18T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=32953"},"modified":"2022-11-22T06:47:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:47:01","slug":"first-trial-users-live-on-virgin-medias-uk-xgs-pon-fibre-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/first-trial-users-live-on-virgin-medias-uk-xgs-pon-fibre-network.html","title":{"rendered":"First Trial Users Live on Virgin Media’s UK XGS-PON Fibre Network UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK ISP Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) has confirmed that the first trial customers on their new XGS-PON powered Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) broadband network were connected this month, which in the future will make even faster latency and symmetric speeds of up to 10Gbps possible across their entire network.<\/p>\n

At present around 14.3 million of Virgin Media<\/a>’s premises are reached via their older Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) network using DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 technology, while more than 1 million of their premises are also being served by “full fibre<\/em>” FTTP<\/a> using the older Radio Frequency over Glass<\/strong> (RFoG) approach to ensure compatibility between both sides of their network.<\/p>\n

The operator’s existing FTTP<\/a> and HFC deployments are already capable of gigabit speeds, but in order to stay competitive into the future, VMO2 needed to go beyond this. The solution they chose, as announced last year (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), was to upgrade all of their existing HFC areas – at a cost of c.\u00a3100 per home (using their existing ducts) – to support the latest 10Gbps XGS-PON powered FTTP technology by 2028 (Project Mustang<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

An early technology pilot of this approach was conducted on 50,000 premises in Stoke<\/strong>, Salisbury<\/strong> and Wakefield<\/strong> earlier this year, but the main rollout programme has now been running for around 6 months. The good news is that the operator has this month begun to switch on this new network and connect their first live trial customers in Yorkshire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jeanie York, VMO2’s Chief Technology Officer, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This month marked an important milestone in the future evolution of our broadband services: for the first time, we switched on state-of-the-art XGS-PON technology on our live full-fibre network. The first trialists are benefitting from this new technology which, in the years to come, will power every broadband connection on our network building on the gigabit leadership we have today.<\/p>\n

In future, customers could upload as quickly as they download with speeds of up to 10Gbps \u2013 ten times faster than the top speeds today \u2013 with nearly imperceptible delays … Not only does XGS-PON support multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds, but it provides a far more energy efficient networking solution. The technology uses less power, helping reduce our energy consumption and deliver our broader sustainability ambitions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, at present, the operator has yet to announce what sort of packages and prices they’ll launch alongside the new XGS-PON network, but we suspect they won’t announce that until the upgrade programme has achieved better coverage (probably sometime later in 2023).<\/p>\n

The same technology also underpins the group’s separate plan to rollout FTTP to an additional 7 million UK premises – under a new entity – to new greenfield areas by 2027, which will be offered at wholesale to rival ISPs.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 19th Nov 2022 @ 7:40am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources have indicated that the only trial product currently available is their 1Gbps package, which seems to come with the usual 50Mbps upload speed. But there’s also some evidence in the documentation that VMO2 intend for this to adopt a 10:1 ratio (i.e. 100Mbps upload). We strongly suspect that 100Mbps uploads will eventually become available across their HFC lines too, so it would make sense to initially keep everything aligned. Looking longer term, VMO2 will launch a symmetric speed package.<\/p>\n

The installation naturally requires an engineer visit to fit the ONT (optical modem) on your inside wall. But at present, the trial product doesn’t support their mesh WiFi<\/a> pods or a landline phone service, although that will no doubt change by launch. A dedicated support team has also been assigned to manage the trial connections. The trial also works with their new ‘STREAM’ TV box, although it’s currently unclear whether they’ll support their existing Pay TV (Virgin TV 360) and other kit further down the line.<\/p>\n

The trial comes shipped with a different router, which is named something like ‘HUB X’ (not sure if that’s 5X or XS at this point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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