BT to test FTTH technology for the first time on brownfield sites

It was recently reported by a popular broadband news site that for the first time the major network operator, BT will be using a brownfield residential site to test its Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology.

The deployment of FTTH technology requires the running of next-generation fibre optic cabling up to the street cabinets and from there the remaining distance from the cabinet to each of the individual homes is covered by the existing copper wire telephone cabling. An established community that has a broadband internet infrastructure already in place is known as a brownfield site.

Broadband speeds of up to 40Mbps could be achieved by the rollout of the new FTTH infrastructure in the Highams Park area of London, and could see the residents in this area enjoying faster download speeds and would make using VoIP solutions a much easier prospect.

Multiple users in the same home would be able to make use of these faster broadband connections by using a single high-speed broadband connection to play games online or watch high definition movies on different computers.

Following the recent release of the governments digital Britain report in which it promised to provide a universal broadband service of 2Mbps or higher throughout the UK by 2012 a number of the country’s businesses are concerned that these kind of speeds will not be enough for many companies, especially in an office environment where faster connection speeds are already needed by an increasing number of applications.

Although some ISPs are advising that in the next few years speeds of up to 150Mbps will be available to many parts of the UK this still fall short of many of the other countries throughout the world that are already running at these speeds and are expected to increase these connection speeds dramatically in the coming years.

Source – Telappliant