That is a very fine distinction Moreno and makes for an excellent question.

It is known with some certainty from local sources that the architecture for the cable infrastructure has been altered from FTTC to FTTP.

What I am less certain about is whether then a mix of FTTC based service and FTTP based infrastructure can be run side-by-side.

Any statement by me would only be a guess at this time.

A little more investigation might provide an answer - or indeed are there any techies out there who may already know.

As a footnote, in this exchange area, the copper based infrastructure performs appallingly even at the shortest of distances for reasons that even BT cannot articulate. I know of one BT copper-based connection that is less than 285 metres from the Forest Hill exchange and BT are struggling to make it perform at 25% of the calculated capacity.

There lies the potential weakness of the original FTTC plan - how close is each premise to the nearest cabinet and how good is that last leg of copper-based network from cabinet to premise ?