{"id":34246,"date":"2023-04-20T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=34246"},"modified":"2023-04-20T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:35:19","slug":"virgin-media-uks-xgs-pon-full-fibre-upgrade-to-go-live-later-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/04\/virgin-media-uks-xgs-pon-full-fibre-upgrade-to-go-live-later-in-2023.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK’s XGS-PON Full Fibre Upgrade to Go Live Later in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Director of Fixed Infrastructure, Engineering and Delivery at broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> UK (VMO2), Matt Tully, has revealed that their upgrade from legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) infrastructure to 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) lines will start to go live for homes “later this year<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. Around 14.3 million out of Virgin Media<\/a>’s 16 million premises passed are currently still reached via their older HFC network using DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 technology, while well over 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.<\/p>\n

The operator\u2019s 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 in 2021 (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), was to upgrade all of their existing HFC areas – at a cost of c.\u00a3100 per home (i.e. using their existing ducts to avoid digging new trenches) – to support the latest 10Gbps XGS-PON powered FTTP technology by 2028 (aka – Project Mustang<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The first closed trial users went live last year as part of an initial pilot build for 50,000 premises around Stoke<\/strong>, Salisbury<\/strong> and Wakefield<\/strong> (here<\/a>), and they’ve since been ramping up this upgrade programme across the UK. But VMO2 weren’t expected to announce new products until they\u2019ve completed a big enough portion of the rollout.<\/p>\n

Progress Update – Project Mustang<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Sadly, it’s very difficult to get any useful progress updates out of Virgin Media<\/a>’s PR team, and so we usually have to rely on our own sources. But luckily, Matt Tully has helped to provide an excellent summary of their progress as part of his recent presentation to the SCTE – Society for Broadband Professionals. Naturally, we’ve watched it all and pulled out some of the details, so you don’t have to.<\/p>\n

The presentation explains a lot about how the XGS-PON upgrade is being conducted, the challenges they faced and what customers can expect. The operator currently expects the ramp-up of their XGS-PON upgrade programme to add another 1 million homes passed in 2023, and it appears as if they’ve already done around 700,000. They’re currently dropping in 5 new Optical Line Terminals (OLT) every single day.<\/p>\n

\"Virgin-Media-UK-XGSPON-2023-Progress\"<\/p>\n

\"Virgin-Media-UK-XGSPON-2023-Locations\"<\/p>\n

Matt Tully added: “Later this year we’ll be going to that ready for sale stage, we’ll be doing trials all summer on this brownfield network and then, at some point later this year, this network will be going live and ready for sale. And then from that point on, every home we build will be fully active day-by-day as we grow this network<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

However, in a perhaps unsurprising admission, Matt also states that “we’re not going to be offering 10Gbps for many.. many years yet. We’re still at 1Gbps today, and our initial offerings are not going to be anywhere near 10Gbps<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Matt didn’t specify precisely what consumers can expect when the new products go live later in 2023, but we do know that Virgin Media have already conducted several 2Gbps trials. The Engineering Director confirmed that 2Gbps was planned for the future, although he also added that “customers don’t need it yet<\/em>“, which is odd since the provider’s desire for faster speeds has always seemed to be led more by marketing than “need<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

On the subject of upload speeds, Matt noted that “upstream is so much more important for consumers these days<\/em>” and he confirmed that the ISP would be launching 100Mbps upstream speeds “later this year<\/em>“, at least on their older HFC network (we might still see symmetric speeds when XGS-PON goes live, but it’s unclear). Indeed, we’ve seen evidence that this is already being softly deployed for their 1Gbps customers (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Virgin Media is also home to around 2 million premises inside big residential buildings (MDUs \/ flats), which Matt acknowledged was the next challenge they had to tackle for the XGS-PON upgrade. Apparently, Virgin Media’s historic records of past wayleaves (legal land\/property access agreements) aren’t perfect and could be an issue, thus they’re working out which ones can be re-purposed and how many might need to be re-negotiated. The latter would be tedious, as a lot of the rules and regulations around MDUs have changed – not to mention the impact of competition from rival networks.<\/p>\n

As we’ve said before, the reason why Virgin Media’s XGS-PON upgrade is so cheap is because they can harness their existing fully ducted network to run the new fibre. But rather than try to replace all of their old street cabinets and adapt them, they instead found it easier to simply build new cabinets alongside the old.<\/p>\n

A programme is also being developed to help retire the legacy network and cables, but that will occur gradually (some cables will be removed as customers gradually migrate across) and won’t be one massive programme. The long-term plan is of course to remove all that dead cable, thus creating room for more fibre cables in the future.<\/p>\n

\"Virgin-Media-UK-XGSPON-2023-Cabinets\"<\/p>\n

Finally, we got a useful overview of Virgin Media’s network traffic growth over the years, which uses their Peak Traffic figure (Terabits per second). The figures here are actually substantially higher than those they’ve released to us before (e.g. in Feb 2023 we were told 24.7Tbps), which makes it difficult to know precisely what this reflects without more context for the data.<\/p>\n

\"Virgin-Media-UK-2023-Tbps-Peak-Traffic-Over-Time\"<\/p>\n

If you have the time, then we highly recommend watching Matt’s full presentation, as there’s a lot of little details that we haven’t fully covered above.<\/p>\n

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