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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I had an IOS upgrade which I initially thought was a reseg this was last week, I believe my ubr has had no previous outage causing maintenace since early 2005 before that. Yet they seem happy to just keep signing up new customers.
Right now I am downloading of a 100mbit german server at 50kB/sec a joke, 30 secs before I started I fxped to a friend on telewest at 800kB of the same server.
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Just because you have stayed where you are doesn't mean that other people haven't been resegmented off the card you're on. Remember that!
On another subject the author of that article is welcoming any feedback any geeks here might have on it, good or bad (so he says
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Originally Posted by slowcoach
BT is in the process of digging up the pavement all down the main road to lay a new cable which goes to a giant CAB behind my house, the cable on the roll is bright yellow and about 2CM Diameter, give or take a bit.
What technology is this likely to be, simply a replacement for the original shot cable or could it be 21st Century stuff?
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21CN is the evolution of the core network away from the traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and to an all-IP core network with soft-switches, literally software switches.
They've ordered a ton of kit from a lot of suppliers, I've had people from Siemens and Cisco ask me if I wanted to interview for a job helping to implement the thing.
Though was kinda necessary, BT were a bit late to catch onto this IP malarky so they're spending the dollars now, but it's great and will actually (although a lot of people will hate this) make the BT core one of the most advanced in the world.
BT are trialling all sorts though dude, could have been core network fibre, could have been part of a trial to put fibre to street cabinets, a trial to get fibre to homes, or could have just been copper to replace existing stuff or add more capacity
Let's just say that ntl's sudden interest in developing their services isn't without some prompting from BT and LLU operators, good this competition malarky innit
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Originally Posted by jtwn
Nice article ig. The last mile however, as far as I can see still remains the same, so the bottleneck for broadbabd still exists to an extent of how much data can flow over those channels.
So its still a case of waiting for DOCSIS 3.0 to take advantage of the greater bandwidth available on the access network, right?
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Nope dead right, with the advent of the gigabit and 10-gigabit metronets the RF/HFC network is where the bottleneck lies, same as every other way of getting the phatness to homes apart from obviously fibre/ethernet all the way.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
First I heard of ntl using docsis 3.
Slowcoach its a good thing to get service disruption during maintenance I agree as it means they doing something, problem is I have had just 1 in the last 15 months.
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Ashford trial? Pre-DOCSIS 3 but same kinda thing, Ultra Wide Band (UWB) DOCSIS.