Broadband

Broadband doesn’t usually get much thought until it stops working – and then it’s all anyone can think about. If your business relies on VoIP calls, video meetings, or cloud software (and whose doesn’t, these days), the connection underneath it all matters more than most people realise. Superfast vs Ultrafast: what’s the difference? You’ll see […]

When you power up your broadband router and connect to the Internet, in order for rest of the world to be able to communicate with your network and devices, the router will need an internet address, just like your house needs an address in order to receive mail correctly. This is called an IP address.

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

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

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

FTTC stands for Fibre To The Cabinet and is often just referred to as ‘fibre’, at least in the UK. This can be a bit misleading however, as many people will expect ‘fibre’ to be a fibre link into the home or the office but this is not the case with FTTC. As the name