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Thanks for the explanation. So, it's future proofing, reduction in costs, but no particular improvement in service, contention-wise, that wouldn't have been achieved by a cisco card upgrade and re-segmenting.

From what you imply about an future symmetrical 1Gb service, can I assume that fibre will be put in through all sections of the local network where it isn't already, i.e. head end > node > street box ?