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Originally Posted by James Henry
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Originally Posted by BASILBRUSH
The reason the LLU only went to 8mb not the 24mb a friend of mine works in the internet control room for telewest was telling me to go 24mb need a router that costs 60,000gbp and needs 8 cards costing about 10,000 each so for every exchange you looking to spend in the region of 250,00gbp that's a lot of money to recoup and the odds are bt will not upgrade this for at least i reckon about 7-10years unless they need to costs are too high on equipment
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Hi Basil 
The rest of it is purely opinion but for the bit above I'm not sure what the Telewest chappy is talking about, and I don't think he knows what he's talking about either.
The kit that CPW buy will do both the 8Mbit and 24Mbit straight out of the box, no extra cost for 24Mbit support over 8Mbit. DSLAM manufacturers don't produce ADSL only cards anymore as far as I know.
No need to load up 8 10k cards in each exchange at all, you add cards as required to connect new customers to, and the chassis itself is the same price whether you are running 24Mbit ADSL2+ or 8Mbit ADSL.
They are advertising the 8Mbit service as they haven't unbundled yet and 8Mbit is the highest they can go. Perhaps in the future they'll go to 24Mbit, their kit will be ready straight out of the box |
Having installed this kit for the last 3 months now for Tiscalie and Opal "Long story, BTW Opal is CPW" i can state that you are correct and the person in Telewest is incorrect. The equipment i have been installing and commissioning is llu and is adsl2+ compatible. you can set it for up to 8 meg or up to 24meg. The telewest engineer will have had more experience with cisco Ubr and this is what he could be talking about.