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News BT's forthcoming ADSL2+ tech will offer speed of up to 24Mbps, though the telco is also dabbling with fibre. A planned BT fibre deployment at Ebbsfleet, Kent, will offer speed of up to 100Mbps on a mixed development including 10,000 homes.
[28 Jan 2008]
News In the late 1980s, SuperJanet was born: a fibre optic high-speed IP sibling to rehost Janet, proposed to address speed concerns. F is for Fibre F is for Fibre Columnist Peter Cochrane is a fan of fibres but switching all of the existing copper...
[01 Nov 2006]
News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections.
[27 Sep 2007]
News F is for Fibre But other companies are also looking at boosting the UK's fat pipes by laying fibre cabling in sewers - which could realise connection speeds of up to 100Mbps. C is for Cable & Wireless
[01 Feb 2008]
News The links could potentially be used as alternatives to fibre-optic cable, with possible data speeds ranging from 1Gbps to 10Gbps over distances of one to two kilometres. F is for Fibre C is for Cable & Wireless
[10 Nov 2006]
News It claims the installation of fibre connections will provide a better and faster service than BT's copper lines. Major cable operator NTL has tried ADSL services over BT lines, but it too has decided to sell only over its own network.
[11 Dec 2000]
News This method sees fibre cable - for really high-speed broadband - laid in existing sewage ducts, a cheaper and faster way of hooking people up than digging up streets where legacy copper wiring lives. A few years back, UK-based company SkyLinc was...
[06 Mar 2008]
News Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. It is also sniffing around fibre.
[22 Feb 2008]
News Around 1,400 metres of the 18mm fibre optic cable has been laid through the town's sewer network, owned by Wessex Water, using ready-made ducts to push the cable through and save the cost and time usually taken digging up roads.
[02 Mar 2007]
News F is for Fibre C is for Cable & Wireless More than two-thirds of respondents said they receive services other than broadband from their ISP - such as home telephone, cable/satellite TV or mobile phone.
[06 Dec 2007]
News Since then, Colt has laid over 2,676km of trunk fibre-optic cable in city networks and expanded throughout the UK and into Europe. The company was one of seven cable start-ups in the early wave of de-regulation and is one of the few that have...
[12 Jan 2001]
News I think we will never be entirely free of BT - there will always be a part of the geography where it's not economic to have more fibre dug in," he said. BT is not working in the interests of one of its biggest customers by launching its 21CN...
[14 Sep 2006]
News F is for Fibre Without investment to improve broadband infrastructure - such as fibre to the home and fibre to the cabinet - Fogg said the danger is "the next big thing on the internet may not work in the UK".
[22 Nov 2007]
News F is for Fibre Given the huge range of services available, from phone line and broadband to cable television and mobile phone, consumers find it difficult to choose which would best meet their needs. C is for Cable & Wireless
[17 Nov 2006]
Comment With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable has been able to carry much more traffic than originally anticipated. We all suffered as telecoms companies dug up roads to install more and...
[08 Jun 2004]
Photo The kit was developed to help BT engineers identify individual fibre optic cables, by basically turning the cables into giant microphones, so that the engineers can identify them by tapping them. This might not look very exciting but it's...
[02 Oct 2006]
Comment Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is another option, which normally uses what is known as the Wireless Local Loop (WLL), which (as its name suggests) allows operators to offer a "last mile" system that does not use the copper or fibre-optic cables in...
[12 Oct 2000]
News So far the project's principle suppliers, Equinox and Thus, have got BT to lay 10 million metres of fibre optic cable to create the core rings of the network and connect the schools to aggregation points.
[16 Jul 2002]
News F is for Fibre C is for Cable & Wireless BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide...
[22 Apr 2008]
News F is for Fibre C is for Cable & Wireless BT has moved its first customers to its 21st Century Network (21CN) in the initial phase of the next-generation network's national rollout. B is for BT The 21CN project is BT's plan to switch its copper...
[28 Nov 2006]
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