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The Wee Bear

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Looks like Vodafone have found a new ball of dry string. 😊
Sounds good though. :cool:
 
"customers are set to enjoy AN EVEN BETTER..." - implying that it's currently good, when in fact it's mediocre at best, but hey, marketing speak. :)
Where would everyone be without the marketing speak Lucian? 😁
 
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Redstream is basically a branding name for a network based on the Ciena 6500 DWDM platform.
 
Should be business as usual. Demand increases so increase capacity.

What we need is capacity to the masts.
We also need more use of the spectrum that they bid on to be used as well as more masts where it's needed to boost the coverage from the network but that applies to all networks and not just Vodafone.
 
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is Redstream the reason why there's been reports of weird routing/higher latency on Voda BB lines?
 
is Redstream the reason why there's been reports of weird routing/higher latency on Voda BB lines?
It may have been where the network was previously at capacity, they've done upgrades and temporarily re-routed traffic, then once it's all done presumably everyone will get great latency again?

It might take a while for them to work out the kinks. Maybe 7 or 8 years ago they launched a new management tool and that took quite a few years when customers were being migrated over to work out the kinks. I worked there at that point and the new system enabled great things but really wasn't a smooth transition.
 
It may have been where the network was previously at capacity, they've done upgrades and temporarily re-routed traffic, then once it's all done presumably everyone will get great latency again?
Looks like it's still ongoing at a quick google for FTTP latency for vodafone. Customers are regularly seeing 15-20ms+ as things are being routed via the opposite end of the country, seemingly with no rhyme or reason. (e.g. people in south of England being routed via Edinburgh)

I'm guessing its a lack of exit points, and some pretty "simple" load balancing across them, rather than using geographic regions etc. There's a very long thread where Vodafone CS have been blaming Cityfibre, but obviously that isn't the case as its the Voda BNG that will be the issue. (People moving to/from other providers have gone from <8ms to 20+ on the same CF FTTP connections)

Old-ish article here:

Probably a cost saving thinking most people won't care, some of the threads on their forums seem to heavily disagree...
 
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