Thread: Getting started.

Vodafone and the rest of them will need PON connections to masts if they wwant to roll out LTE post 2012 . However they will not be interested in contrcting willy nilly as OB said . Were there a number of community fibre projects to a single high common standard such as 10GEPON with a single national point of contact for Capacity Sales and SLA that would be different But that would be putting the horse up the carts arse as things are right now...

Alrite so I'm getting to understand a few other simple concepts, however their is still plenty that I'm not so sure about - I'll get into it soon enough. Thanks to those who pointed me towards relevant information. I found the Global Maps to be of particular interest. But bringing it back to a smaller scale for the time being. I have been thinking of the possibilities of ways & whys of introducing a new Cable...

Quote: Originally Posted by rob808 How u get 34mb broadband man with 1mb up Using one of these routers and bonding two connections into one!

Looking forward to getting those materials!

Hire a digger? Despite being told YEARS ago by their own committee to do it, the Government has not yet mandated any carrier neutral ducting. Nor can you use the poles as in USA, as the ESB and Eircom have exclusivity on their own poles. The ESB oddly has more fibre on their poles & pylons than Eircom have. eircom do have fibre in Ducts. But they can't easily replace cable with fibre in some ducts as they used the wrong kind of...

Quote: Originally Posted by netwhizkid I have some experience with a similar situation to your own, PM me and we can swap notes, ideas etc. My own interest began back in 2004 with a frustratingly slow dialup connection, I replaced that with one-way satellite in 2005 and last year migrated to a system which delivers speeds as per my sig. I had no help along the way bar a few boards users and had to start from scratch and educate myself in all...

Quote: Originally Posted by Erbium If I were to run a optical cable, say 10G-EPON out trough a pile of fields and other crap to reach an already existing vodafone GSM/3G mobile mast, is it likely that vodafone would be interesting in contracting? Almost certainly not. Quote: Where are the main live backhauls throughout Ireland I wasn't able to find any mapping. BT have fibre along many railway lines, but don't have PoPs at all...