Openreach Ramps up Full Fibre Speeds with Network Upgrade

Industry backs Openreach fibre upgrade, but warns speed is only part of the connectivity equation

Industry groups have welcomed Openreach’s plans to bring next-generation full-fibre broadband to more than 1m UK premises over the next 12 months, as AI, Cloud services and connected devices drive up demand for data. But the reaction also underlines that faster fibre connections are only one part of the infrastructure needed to support an increasingly connected economy, with the London Internet Exchange warning that investment in access networks…

Eurobites: Openreach expands fiber speed upgrade

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Openreach ramps up Full Fibre speeds with network upgrade

Openreach has announced plans to upgrade more of its Full Fibre network. In a bid to bring faster broadband speeds and more capacity to millions of homes and businesses, the network provider plans to expand its use of XGS-PON technology, which can support broadband speeds of up to 10Gbps. As a result, the upgrade will take Full Fibre beyond Openreach’s current top download speed of 1.8Gbps, with potential speeds of up to 8.5Gbps. According to th…

Openreach Expands UK Rollout of 10Gbps Speed Full Fibre XGS-PON Broadband

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has this morning announced that they intend to expand their ongoing pilot of 10Gbps capable XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP technology, which over the next 12 months will be made available to “more than a million premises” across the United Kingdom. But a third of its full fibre network could be covered over the next 5 years. Openreach’s existing full fibre network is currently stil…