NBP: enet Fibre to the Home (FTTH) - Proof of Concept Pilot

clohamon

From the Department's November update

On 16th October officials from the Department undertook a site visit to observe enet’s proof of concept pilot (FTTH) for some 440 premises near Tralee, Co Kerry. This pilot uses a combination of enet’s own infrastructure, new poles and Openeir’s distribution network, primarily Openeir’s pole infrastructure.

Should have been quite instructive on the issues around getting access to Openeir's poles.

And from the Kerryman

The deal, a first for Munster, will see Kerry Broadband and e-net pilot a Fibre to the Home (FTTH) internet connection service to 400 homes and business in the Ballymacelligot area.

The pilot project, which is nearing completion, will see 32 kilometres of fibre cable run overhead around various townlands in the Ballymacelligot area.

This fibre connection will allow speeds of 250Mbps to 1Gbps to be delivered to any house within the service area for a competitive price starting at €50 per month.

Kerry Broadband said it expects the first customers in Ballymacelligott to be connected and by the end of October 2015.

It is hoped that following on from this pilot project, similar FTTH networks will be rolled out to other parts of the County.

Paul Dolan Managing Director of Kerry Broadband said the firm is already in the early stages of designing a similar network for the Cahersiveen and Valentia area.

clohamon

Costing €650,000 and providing fibre-broadband connections directly to approximately 340 premises in the locality, it is enet’s showcase project for the National Broadband Plan.

http://www.enet.ie/news/149/138/Taoiseach-launches-enet-s-1Gb-rural-FTTH-project.html

Strawberry HillBilly

€1912 per premises ! seems to be a lot less than was being estimated on boards over the last year or so. Certainly way less than the reported £20k per connection BT were supposedly looking for.

clohamon

Strawberry HillBilly wrote: »

€1912 per premises ! seems to be a lot less than was being estimated on boards over the last year or so. Certainly way less than the reported £20k per connection BT were supposedly looking for.

Maybe less if you can understand Silicon Republic..

However, when economies of scale are taken into account, Henry estimated that the cost of deploying FTTH for the 750,000 premises will work out at €800 to €1,000 per home, and much higher for homes and businesses on the very edge of the network.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/2016/01/29/broadband-plan-eir-siro-enet

gctest50

http://b4rn.org.uk/

B4RN is a professionally designed fibre optic broadband network, registered as a non-profit community benefit society, and run by a dedicated local team with the support of landowners and volunteers. We offer 1,000Mbps FTTH broadband to every property in our coverage area within North West England, costing households only £30 per month.

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clohamon

B4RN is fantastic, but it relies on community solidarity (landowners wayleaves), voluntary work, barter, and that Barry Forde happens to be a network expert. Its expanding, but quite slowly.

Ironic that UK Gov. honour Barry Forde and Christine Conder with MBEs but give all the cash (£1.7Bn) to BT.

bk

Strawberry HillBilly wrote: »

€1912 per premises ! seems to be a lot less than was being estimated on boards over the last year or so. Certainly way less than the reported £20k per connection BT were supposedly looking for.

Nothing supposed about the BT numbers, they are right here:

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/04/breaking-costs-330mbps-fttp-demand-broadband.html

- £750 connection fee
- £3.50 per meter line fee (so for instance £7,000 for a 2km line)
- £99 per month rental

All prices exclusive of VAT.

Of course this is for a Fibre on Demand service where you can order your fibre even if there isn't any near you and your neighbours aren't interested.

Obviously you can reduce these costs significantly when you take into account economies of scale and if you are connecting up everyone in the same area at the same time.

However €1912 per premises would be on the higher end of the scale. That would mean the NBP would cost 1.4 billion for the 750,000 premises of the NBP and more then 4 billion for every home in Ireland.

Certainly not small money at all! But hopefully something we can get done.