Telewest Network Upgrades

[Saltank]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73876/te...e-upgrade.html

[Nemesis]

Originally Posted by Saltank

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73876/te...e-upgrade.html

This a register only site.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Simon M

This a register only site.

Strange-when I clicked the link earlier, I was able to read the article, now it says (as you say) that you need to be registered....

[dilli-theclaw]

I've just clicked on the link and it let me read it.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Neil

Strange-when I clicked the link earlier, I was able to read the article, now it says (as you say) that you need to be registered....

It lets you read it first time but sets three cookies. Delete the one that doesn't expire at the end of the session and set it not to accept cookies from that site.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

It lets you read it first time but sets three cookies. Delete the one that doesn't expire at the end of the session and set it not to accept cookies from that site.

Nice one.

Originally Posted by PC Pro

Telewest, best known as a cable TV company, is upgrading its infrastructure to enable it to converge its four main businesses of voice, video, Broadband and business data into a a more streamlined whole based on Gigabit networking technology.

The company wants to expand its broadband capacity in order to roll out its upcoming TV-on-demand (TVOD) services. In addition, it needs extra bandwidth to cope with the growth of new broadband services and extend the company's high-bandwidth Ethernet and IP Virtual Private Network (IP-VPN) services to more business customers by doubling the number of business hub sites in the network.

The contract for the upgrade has been given to Cisco Systems which will create a single platform based around its Internet Protocol Next Generation Network (IP NGN) technology.

Telewest is upgrading 14 regional head-ends and 64 hub sites to Gigabit Ethernet, using Cisco 7609 Series routers at its regional head-ends and hub sites, with integrated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) pluggable optics, to provide dual 10Gbps capacity network to support the TVOD services.

The Cisco 7609 Series routers with Supervisor Engine 720 comprises the multiservice edge platform for TVOD services, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs and Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTS) aggregation, together with Cisco Catalyst 6748 and 6704 Ethernet line cards with Distributed Forwarding Cards to create a scalable Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure.

[eshaq786]

So could this be an indication of speed increases to come?

[MalcUK2005]

Originally Posted by eshaq786

So could this be an indication of speed increases to come?

Don't think its a question of speed upgrades coming or not more a question of how well the network can cope with it, thats why im glad to see their upgrading.

[Ignition]

A certain cableco has had this sort of bandwidth and higher to hubs and headends for years

[eshaq786]

But that ISP turned out to be the one with slower speeds with caps in place.

[jtwn]

Yeah slower by most reports than by coming from this forum and yeah you can just hear the cries from people going over their 'cap in place'

Just remember ntl will own you soon so bow down.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by eshaq786

But that ISP turned out to be the one with slower speeds with caps in place.

Mebbe but I can't remember the last time an entire region of said ISP's networks became overloaded to the point where service status announcements had to be done

[eshaq786]

You should consider yourself the few lucky ones without any problems.

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by eshaq786

You should consider yourself the few lucky ones without any problems.

Nah there've been lots of people who've been happy bunnies with ntl, if there weren't they'd be out of business.

We see a lot of the worst of it here and on ADSLGuide, necessarily so, happy people don't tend to post about how great their service is.

[Shep]

lol cable sux

lo iggy

p