Hydro-Electric Broadband?
Discussion
I spoek with a senior bod at 247 on this topic last year. His response was that cue to the fact that bits of the infrastructure are 100 years old there is a lot of noise on the lines. This meant that getting decent clean data rates was very difficult and therefore not cost effective. They did however say that they were keeping an eye on the Scottish trials.
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I spoek with a senior bod at 247 on this topic last year. His response was that cue to the fact that bits of the infrastructure are 100 years old there is a lot of noise on the lines. This meant that getting decent clean data rates was very difficult and therefore not cost effective. They did however say that they were keeping an eye on the Scottish trials.
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As we provide the underlying ISP service for the SE trial here's the lowdown.
It works a bit like a cable modem - hence bandwidth is shared (unlike ADSL where the bandwidth to the exchange is dedicated).
The bandwidth is less than ADSL underlying (ADSL actually goes at 8Mbps downstream - just the service providers choose to only sell 512kbps)
It has significant scalabiluity issues
Noise is a problem, as are general power problems
Costs at the moment are currently high for the end user kit, but dropping rapidly.
The coverage is sub-station based, which means large amount of infrastructure is needed (i.e. high capital costs)
The trials are going well, so expect to see more of this. It is an interesting "alternative" to ADSL - but suffers from the same issues as cable modems as is very capital intensive to roll out to large areas.
J
It works a bit like a cable modem - hence bandwidth is shared (unlike ADSL where the bandwidth to the exchange is dedicated).
The bandwidth is less than ADSL underlying (ADSL actually goes at 8Mbps downstream - just the service providers choose to only sell 512kbps)
It has significant scalabiluity issues
Noise is a problem, as are general power problems
Costs at the moment are currently high for the end user kit, but dropping rapidly.
The coverage is sub-station based, which means large amount of infrastructure is needed (i.e. high capital costs)
The trials are going well, so expect to see more of this. It is an interesting "alternative" to ADSL - but suffers from the same issues as cable modems as is very capital intensive to roll out to large areas.
J
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