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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

FTTP G.fast

• >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

More Fibre To The Premises

• Ambition 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

FTTP

For business

• Up to 1m businesses to have Ultrafast access by 2020,

including Business FTTP in high streets and business parks

• Complete trials of Business FTTP

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

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Long Reach (LR) VDSL could help to bring higher speeds to customers in hard to reach areas

Long Reach VDSL 1.LR-VDSL has the potential to significantly raise speeds on long copper lines (above 2km and below 3.5km from the DSLAM) 2.LR-VDSL uses 3 key elements to increase performance:

• Greater use of the ADSL spectrum range
• Higher power levels across spectrum ranges
• Vectoring to minimise the additional

interference from higher power levels 3.Standard VDSL and LR-VDSL can be applied on a line by line basis to achieve best performance

• n each line in a cabinet

Progress to date

• A small-scale technical Proof of Concept was

started in East Sussex in May 2016, open to CPs with existing GEA-FTTC lines

• We have seen very positive results
• In August 2016 we began a further Proof of

Concept trial in The Outer Hebrides

• Next step is to run a series of trials in areas

across the country, working with CPs

Delivering Ultrafast speeds

FTTP having an increasingly important role

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Micro cables and tools to reduce civils Efficient materials such as element trays and smaller closures saving 80% splicing costs Slicker processes such as 1 step build and commission and 1 step provision

Local marketing working with communities

• Sealed network
• Connectorised

technology

• Vastly improved

efficiency and reliability

• Multiple FTTP trials underway to test

different deployment scenarios:

• Haydon Wick
• London
• Shefford
• Use of connectorisation and prebuild

are quicker, slicker and cost effective and an excellent customer experience

• We want to build right up to the

customers curtilage where we can to speed up and simplify provision

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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
• 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 Bradford trial locations;

• Kirkgate & Queensgate – high street retail
• Listerhills Science Park
• Fieldgate Business Park

A more competitive market

• 30% - 50% reductions in TCO since 2012
• ECC included in the price for over 90% of orders
• An Ethernet service without the boxes using the same fibre infrastructure

as our other Ethernet and Optical services

• Patch panel termination putting the choice of electronics and the speed of

the line in the hands of the Communications Providers

• Priced based on our current EAD 1Gig active product, ~£3,000 connection

and ~£3,000 to £5000 per annum rental

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More affordable business Ethernet

Fibre coverage across every City in the

• UK. Solutions from

10Meg to 100Gig

Dark Fibre due 1st October 2017

Duct and Pole Access

• Access to our infrastructure to

build NGA networks

• Originally launched in 2010
• New improved service under test

with reserve, survey and build process all in one go

• Much improved way of dealing

with blockages and positive feedback from the trial

• Developing a self serv. tool for

mapping infrastructure on the Openreach portal

We’re enabling others to build

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Transforming from a copper voice network to an Internet ready high speed infrastructure

Openreach Network

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