The growth of fibre: Options for connectivity Mark Logan, Openreach September 2016
Investing in the UK’s digital future Where we are today • Over 90% of UK premises can access superfast broadband across all fixed networks, on target for 95% by end of 2017 • Well over 25m premises now passed with fibre • Working on behalf of over 500 Communication Providers • Invested more than £10.5bn over the last 10 years in digital infrastructure and £3bn on fibre Our ambition • Take UK superfast broadband coverage beyond 95% • Move from a Superfast to an Ultrafast nation • We stand ready to address slow speeds in the final few per cent of the country should there be regulatory support How we’ll deliver • G.fast • Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) • Long Reach VDSL
Faster speeds – ambition for 12m Ultrafast by 2020 Consumers • >11m homes passed with ultrafast by 2020 (mix of G.fast and FTTP) • Continue G.fast trials • Pilot G.fast at 25,000 homes in 16/17, with proposed future specification in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire and Gillingham, Kent • Ready for commercial deployment in 17/18 G.fast For business • Up to 1m businesses to have Ultrafast access by 2020, FTTP including Business FTTP in high streets and business parks • Complete trials of Business FTTP More Fibre To The Premises FTTP Am bition to increase mix of FTTP in Ultrafast roll out • • Continue trials to improve cost to deploy and customer experience • FTTP for new build homes, rural areas, apartment blocks, businesses and where it makes sense
Delivering Ultrafast speeds G.Fast on track for 10m customers by 2020 • 18 months ago, G.fast was initially deployable at the distribution point close to the end customer and 96 port G.fast DSLAMs were not on vendors roadmaps • Since then the ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardization Sector) has agreed an “extended reach” profile for G.fast • Leading vendors have committed to G.fast DSLAMs with 96 ports • Technology will be deployed using a side pod attached to the existing copper cabinet • Most customers are achieving 300Mbps downstream and 30-50Mbps upstream • Wide-scale pilot of 25,000 homes in Cherry Hinton and Gillingham will deploy from the Autumn • T&Cs, and pricing, to be confirmed later this Autumn • Next step will be to develop a deployment plan that will enable us to provide G.fast coverage to 10m premises by 2020 4
Long Reach (LR) VDSL could help to bring higher speeds to customers in hard to reach areas Long Reach VDSL Progress to date • A small-scale technical Proof of Concept was 1.LR-VDSL has the potential to significantly raise started in East Sussex in May 2016, open to CPs speeds on long copper lines (above 2km and with existing GEA-FTTC lines below 3.5km from the DSLAM) • We have seen very positive results 2.LR-VDSL uses 3 key elements to increase performance: • In August 2016 we began a further Proof of • Greater use of the ADSL spectrum range Concept trial in The Outer Hebrides • Higher power levels across spectrum ranges • Vectoring to minimise the additional • Next step is to run a series of trials in areas interference from higher power levels across the country, working with CPs 3.Standard VDSL and LR-VDSL can be applied on a line by line basis to achieve best performance on each line in a cabinet
Delivering Ultrafast speeds FTTP having an increasingly important role Local marketing working with • Multiple FTTP trials underway to test communities different deployment scenarios: • Haydon Wick • London • Shefford • Sealed network • Connectorised • Use of connectorisation and prebuild technology • Vastly improved are quicker, slicker and cost effective efficiency and reliability and an excellent customer experience Micro cables and tools to reduce civils • We want to build right up to the customers curtilage where we can to speed up and simplify provision Slicker processes such Efficient materials such as as 1 step build and element trays and smaller commission and 1 step closures saving 80% splicing provision costs 6
Faster Speeds for business Progress on our Ultrafast portfolio: Business FTTP update The first nine locations that will benefit from a new Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) product specifically designed for SMEs, offering ultrafast speeds of up to 1Gbps are; Bath, Bradford, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Salford - as well as Westminster, Holborn and the City – in London � Announced terms and conditions for our trial in Bradford , which started last month. Our offer to CPs includes : � Free connection on 330/30Mbps speed tier on all new orders � Free connection and free rental on 500/165Mbps and 1000/220Mbps speed tiers � Free 1Gbps GEA cablelink and 10Gbps GEA cablelink on the trial headend Bradford trial locations; • Kirkgate & Queensgate – high street retail • Listerhills Science Park • Fieldgate Business Park � Work is underway to support the next stage of Business FTTP survey activity, with initial focus on Bath/ Bristol. � Survey work has commenced in Avonmouth (trading estate area with c.525 businesses) � Our plan is to deliver to internal DPs wherever possible (permissions dependent) � Targeting a 6 week build cycle per PON (permissions dependent) using our new FTTP build process Avonmouth trading estate 9
A more competitive market More affordable business Ethernet We’re enabling others to build Fibre coverage across Duct and Pole Access every City in the • Access to our infrastructure to UK. Solutions from 10Meg to 100Gig build NGA networks • Originally launched in 2010 • 30% - 50% reductions in TCO since 2012 • New improved service under test • ECC included in the price for over 90% of orders with reserve, survey and build process all in one go Dark Fibre due 1 st October 2017 • Much improved way of dealing with blockages and positive • An Ethernet service without the boxes using the same fibre infrastructure feedback from the trial as our other Ethernet and Optical services • Developing a self serv. tool for • Patch panel termination putting the choice of electronics and the speed of mapping infrastructure on the the line in the hands of the Communications Providers Openreach portal • Priced based on our current EAD 1Gig active product, ~£3,000 connection and ~£3,000 to £5000 per annum rental 8
Openreach Network Transforming from a copper voice network to an Internet ready high speed infrastructure 9
Looking to the future We’re working collaboratively with our CP partners and wider industry on: G.fast - end customer pilots Business FTTP - designing and shaping products and delivery processes Long Reach VDSL - learning from proof of concept trials and preparing for the technical trials Dark Fibre Access – shaping our Dark Fibre reference offer Duct and Pole Access – proof of concept trial and future publication of digital maps
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