Installing Superfast Fibre Solutions to Bristol
PROJECT
Leading communication and infrastructure services provider Virtua has partnered with our customer since 2019 to help build its next generation full fibre network.
We are undertaking several projects with our customer throughout the UK, these particular projects involved the installation of new superfast fibre. The sites are located in the city of Bristol, the first an apartment complex and the second an elderly care home.
SOLUTION
Both the care home and the apartment complex involved a full turn key solution, from the design through to build and testing. Our engineering teams undertook several activities including:
- PIA Cabling
- Civils
- External Access Cabling
- External Connectivity Cabling
The installation on MDU’s is done pulling an external fibre cable from the Open Reach node installed in the street following an underground route using existing dutcts and getting to the entry point of the premises.
Once inside they’ll install a breakout box splicing the fibres with the internal cabling.
The internal cabling has two different solutions:
Invisilight
The first one is called Invisilight, it’s a discrete solution easy-to-install and almost invisible fiber drop connections for the indoor living unit.
It’s a very small cable (a few millimetres wide) with 12 fibres within, that is installed using a special glue.
The cable will be glued where the wall meets the ceiling and pinned above entrance, fire doors and corners using special clips that will hold the cable in case of fire.
Above each door a small breakout box will be installed with a fibre spliced ready to be used for the residents once they require the service.
EzBend
The second one is called EzBend. It’s a plug and play solution with a dedicated fibre cable that will be installed above the ceiling and left coiled above the apartment.
This particular solution is usually used if the premises has got accessible ceiling tiles that can be accessed.
Once the installations were complete, the engineers then connected the newly installed fibre cable to a central fibre node from Openreach’s existing local exchange, making the network live and ready for use.
BENEFIT
This installation will now ensure the residents have access to ultrafast broadband, with speeds of up to 1GB, ten times faster than average speeds today.
Our work with Openreach is ongoing, helping them to install their FTTH solutions across the UK.