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Originally Posted by yer nice one
NTL have a larger user base, hence more traffic. lets take the figure of 300,000 10mb users more users than telewest.
300,000 more users would need at least 1tb link to multiple transit providers around europe, US etc,
Whats the lead time of getting these type of fibre links installed ? and the equipment required to handle the task?
Its not just a case of upgrading what NTL own, its all about capacity and lead times, fibre links, equipment etc,
I still think NTL are doing a great job and one day NTL will win the UK cable battle.  |
I can promise you 300,000 users doesn't need at least 1Tbit of transit.
ntl, Telewest, BT and AOL
combined don't have 1Tbit of transit.
I could give you the exact amount of capacity that ntl had on the broadband cable network when I left, however I'll stop at saying it's a lot less than 100Gbit and more than enough for the job.
1Tbit is a huge huge number and no IP network in the UK or for that matter anywhere else can support that kind of abuse at the moment. (Note use of 'IP' I'm aware of 80 wavelength DWDM, etc, that supports 10Gbit/wavelength though even then you only get 800Gbit/s per fibre.)