{"id":35397,"date":"2023-08-11T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=35397"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:02:59","slug":"exascale-expand-west-midlands-full-fibre-rollout-and-upgrades-ont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/08\/exascale-expand-west-midlands-full-fibre-rollout-and-upgrades-ont.html","title":{"rendered":"Exascale Expand West Midlands Full Fibre Rollout and Upgrades ONT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shropshire-based UK ISP and alternative broadband provider Exascale<\/a> has today provided ISPreview with an update on the latest locations to benefit from their rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) broadband network in the West Midlands. The provider has also changed the Optical Network Terminals (ONT) they use.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. Exascale is a smaller operator that has been gradually expanding their Dark Fibre and FTTP<\/a> network at their own pace, starting with the northern part of Telford (target of c.4,000 premises) and more recently expanding across a small patch of West Bromwich.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The provider has so far covered around 2,000 premises with their FTTP<\/a> network.<\/div>\n

The latest update we’ve been sent states that they’ve also built into the village of Horton in Telford, and are now building into Preston Upon the Weald Moores, Kindersley, Lilleshall and Chetwynd Aston, all of which has been supported by the UK Government’s rural focused Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme<\/a> (GBVS).<\/p>\n

Alongside its existing vendor of Optical Line Terminal<\/strong> (OLT) equipment (Nokia), Exascale has this week also started working with Genexis<\/strong>, which is a specialist in xPON and Point-to-Point Optical Network Terminals<\/strong> (ONT) and media converters, to deploy their residential FibreTwist ONT<\/strong> customer premises equipment (this is the optical modem that gets screwed to your interior wall).<\/p>\n

Thomas Bibb, CEO of Exascale, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We recognise the need for a diverse and vendor agnostic ecosystem, and working with Genexis alongside distribution partner Kenton Group has enabled us to do just this. The Genexis FibreTwist ONT doesn\u2019t only just work with a plethora of OLT vendors, but reduces engineer installation times, the need for furniture to cover any holes drilled internally and future truck rolls for replacements or upgrades.<\/p>\n

Simply twist the old unit off and the new one onto the backplate \u2013 We were sold the moment we saw it at a recent Connected Britain event.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see a little video of what this means below:<\/p>\n