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Month: September 2022

What is FTTP?

FTTP stands for Fibre To The Premise and is basically a broadband connection based on providing full fibre all the way to the home or office. Other so-called ‘fibre’ products such as FTTC still rely on using the existing copper lines from the street cabinet to the end user and therefore are limited on the …

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What is the difference between Superfast and Ultrafast broadband?

Superfast broadband offers significantly faster speeds than standard ADSL broadband, with download speeds typically in excess of 30Mbit/s and utilises fibre technology, most commonly FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet) and now SoGEA. Whilst FTTC and SoGEA are described as ‘fibre technologies’, this is a bit of a misleading term and can cause confusion. For a …

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What is SoGEA?

We do love our acronyms in the telecom industry. We’ve got oodles of them. But SoGEA is a real doozy. I mean… who makes these things up? So, it stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. Still none the wiser? Hardly surprising. The vast majority of broadband connections in the UK are provided as an …

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