Re: ntl budget cutbacks
Peter Black was originally the Networks Director, then he became CTO. He was the ultimate empire builder and expanded the Networks division into a bloated behemoth about 7 times the size it is now. It was unworkable and as soon as Wood left and Carter came in he was gone.
Leigh Bennet took over on a temporary basis and the current Networks Director is Steve Upton. I also met Tom de la Rocco in '94. He was a big guy and was into the construction side of things but he went back to the states very soon after. the original Cabletel yank clique of Barclay, Leigh Wood, Tom and Alfredo and Dinni Jain. There was also another guy who once tried motivate us by quoting Yoda from Empire Strikes Back. - Weird. I have no axe to grind with any of them, they're just part of the companies history. |
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ntl do not however carry any traffic for this countries critical national infrastructure as I said in my previous post. All traffic of a sensitive nature carried on the critical national infrastructure must use high grade carrier class crypto links. Currently there is only one device that meets/exceeds the specifications for this work, these units cannot be bought by any tom, dick or harry, there is a list of approved departments/companies who this sort of gear can be supplied. The last thing the governemnt would want is to have one in an unmanned switch site with security guards monitoring remotely in their sleep. The only network operator in this country with authority to purchase these devices is not ntl! ;) |
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No what big US Defence project has been making the news in the Uk in the past years??? think Fylingdales and missiles. The other carrier will be buying all the technical kit but sending the signals over the ntl fibre network. You have to remember that ntl leases individual fibre strands on its network to loads of other companies for their sole use. Including but not limited to: Orange Flag Level 3 Interroute BT Global Crossing Some of these carriers incl BT may send critical sensitive information over their networks, but actually their networks may include ntl fibre. |
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