BT Wholesale’s recently launched WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) service has suffered a setback this week as 440 exchange activation dates have been delayed and a further 320 have been removed from the schedule all together.
The new wholesale service from BT offers ADSL2+ end user connections and will eventually be available nationwide. Despite being launched in
I am pleased to announce that our first Performance Monitoring report is ready (finally!).
The report is available in PDF format using the link below. Apologies for the relatively large file size - many of the images are at a higher resolution, so you can zoom in for a better look. A one page “executive summary”
P2P (peer to peer) traffic is seldom out of the news either because its most popular use is for pirating copyright material or because ISPs are throttling it to reduce the impact on their network.
In the USA a bit of deep academic thinking has gone into seeking ways of addressing the traffic issue, while potentially
The introduction of BT’s 21CN network and Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) has caused unexpected problems for some Entanet customers who have found their connection being migrated over to the new system.
It appears that Entanet have taken the opportunity at some WBC equipped exchanges to move IPStream customers onto the new infrastructure. About 4% of customers
Entanet launches their “2Plus” range of broadband services on Tuesday 15th July. These are variable rate ADSL2+ products that will connect to the telephone exchange at speeds as high as 24 Mbits/s or as low as 288 kbits/s depending on line length, interference, extension wiring and the usual constraints of physics. In other words an
OFCOM have opened a consultation looking at the future pricing structure for BT’s Openreach division.
Openreach owns and runs the BT “local loop” copper network and charges other divisions of BT and other operators for use of the lines. As the local loop is an effective monopoly the pricing is regulated by OFCOM.
Currently the prices charged
Keen followers of BT’s 21CN project will know that today is the day that Wholesale Broadband Connect launches. The new service from BT Wholesale aims to bring their range of ADSL products up to speed with the LLU services of their competitors. It also introduces a range of QoS (Quality of Service) options that could
BT Wholesale assembled journalists from a wide range of technology websites at it’s Gatwick offices yesterday as we begin the countdown to the launch of Wholesale Broadband Connect in six weeks. BT were keen to demonstrate the plethora of new techniques designed to help improve broadband throughput on the new 21CN-based wholesale product.
They began by
Be Unlimited have this morning announced plans to expand their network by nearly 400 exchanges within the next four months. This represents a 50% increase in their exchange footprint and will give them the second largest LLU network in the UK. Their 1245 unbundled exchanges will be trumped only by TalkTalk’s 1645. Be’s network of
BT Wholesale have announced indicative launch prices for their 21CN-based Wholesale Broadband Connect and IPStream Connect products to Consult21 members. These prices have changed considerably since the trial prices were released last Autumn.
End User Access pricing
As with the launch of ADSL Max, BT Wholesale will again be offering free migration from IPStream/DataStream to WBC, providing
The 21CN summary pages have been refreshed with the latset information today. This incorporates many of the changes over the past few months, including the removal of the two stage IPStream migration process, new FTTP information and revised rollout schedules.
The final WBC pricing is expected to be released to ISPs next week, and I imagine
It seems that at the beginning of each year someone somewhere heralds the coming year as being the “year of broadband”. 2007 was no different, with many predicting that LLU would truly take off. In many ways this has held true - there are now in excess of 3 million unbundled lines in the UK,
The latest Broadband Working Group slides from BT’s Consult21 seem to demonstrate growing unease amongst the ISPs over BT Wholesale’s 21CN plans.
In the minutes of the 26th September meeting representatives of Sky, Tiscali, Orange and even BT Retail all voiced their dissatisfaction over proposals to switch from a two step migration process (20CN IPStream to
Entanet have this afternoon announced that they will be unbundling two exchanges over the next 6 weeks in order to provide uncontended “ethernet first mile” solutions. In optimum conditions the service is capable of up to 100Mbps symmetric speeds by utilising 40 bonded SDSL circuits. Businesses with particularly long lines will also be pleased to
Entanet are to begin trialling their 21CN product set on a series of exchanges in the Birmingham area. Up to 250 users from the three participating ISPs (Entanet is the only non-BT ISP in the trial) will be connected to the network running off the back of the new WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) product.
The exchanges
BT Wholesale’s Consult21 team have published indicative trial pricing for the Real Time QoS option for the new Wholesale Broadband Connect product. As with the pricing for Assured Sessions (the other QoS option), there is a massive difference between pricing between “Band 1 exchanges” and “Band 2 exchanges” (of which there are ~1016 and ~4500
Have you heard about 21CN but are not really sure what it’s all about? If so, you’re not alone. We receive quite a lot of email from users confused about how 21CN will affect them and what new products it will bring.
With the national migration to 21CN starting in just a few months, we’ve put
Since BT first announced their 21st Century Network (21CN) over two years ago, many people have been wondering when it is coming and how it will affect them. Well, now that trials are near completion, BT and Ofcom have launched a website designed to provide exactly this information to interested parties.
Switched-on contains information about
BT have today announced that they have signed the remaining four contracts for suppliers for the 21st Century Network rollout. Rather unsurprisingly, Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu are the four additional prefered suppliers that now join the existing list of Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens.
BT’s 21CN plans involve moving the entire telecommunications network to an
Following the presentation this morning by BT Wholesale (slides available here), a few more things have become clear.
Two trials are being started this year. The first, as meantioned in the article earlier today, is the PSTN to VoIP trial which will be conducted at 18 exchanges in London and the East. The second trial is