What is Fibre broadband?

Fibre broadband (also known as FTTC) is the next generation broadband connection.  It uses fibre optic cables to provide much higher speeds, both in upload and download speed.

How does it work?

Eclipse fibre broadband is FTTC  - it's the first fibre connection made available on the mass market and stands for Fibre to the Cabinet.  That's because you're using a brand new fibre link between your local exchange and the cabinet - where the internet comes into your street.  The connection between the street cabinet and your premises is still copper (as with your current ADSL connection) but as copper performs well over short distances, you're still able to access high speeds.

What do I get?

Fibre broadband with Eclipse promises to make sure that you get the fastest possible speed, we will always provide your service using the fastest available technology. There's one crucial difference when buying fibre broadband with Eclipse, though.  That's the fact that we provide a assured throughput.

What does assured throughput mean?

Eclipse assures you'll receive up to 12Mbps throughput on your fibre broadband line averaged over a 24 hour period.  That's the output, or productivity you can expect from your connection.

If your throughput figure falls  below the throughput we assure in a 24 hour period, we'll send an engineer over to improve things.

Assured throughput gives you a minimum level of performance - something that isn't a part of standard ADSL provisioning.

Provisioning fibre broadband