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News BT's investment in its all-IP next-generation network - known as the 21CN - has hit its move towards fibre to the home (FTTH), a type of technology for delivering broadband that could supercharge the UK's internet connections.
[12 Apr 2007]
News BT is seriously considering a rollout of high-speed fibre connectivity across the country, according to the company's outgoing chairman. Sir Christopher Bland, who relinquishes his role at BT in September, said on Wednesday that BT could opt for a...
[19 Jul 2007]
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 The Ethernet Virtual LAN (Evlan) service extends BT's existing LAN/SAN extension service, which uses fibre connections to make Ethernet links between places up to 25km apart and is currently being rolled out to all London schools in a government...
[15 Sep 2005]
News Back in 2003, BT announced it was planning to run copper alongside the TPON fibre links to allow ADSL signals to be supported. In other cases, it's because they are connected to their local exchange by legacy fibre-optic cables known as TPON...
[14 Sep 2005]
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 This network will make a significantly greater use of fibre-optic connections than today. In some cases fibre will reach as far as the end user's premises, superseding today's legacy copper lines. A second trial will investigate fibre-to-the-home...
[09 Jun 2004]
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 Reynolds also revealed BT has abandoned its trials of fibre to the home. Reynolds added BT would offer fibre to the home or business only if other carriers demanded it from the telco. He said: "We have worked extensively on the operational testing...
[23 Nov 2006]
News The consortium will use the same bulk-buying position to negotiate the installation of fibre optic networks into buildings that would otherwise not have an alternative to BT's local loop. However, with this deal the landlord can arrange a fibre...
[23 May 2000]
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]
News F is for Fibre F is for Fibre Fibre Forget the Bran Flakes - its optical fibre that's the big idea when it comes to transmitting data. F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre F is for Fibre
[01 Nov 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 And the push isn't about just flavours of DSL but also pressing for fibre connections. Kimber added: "By the time we wake up to fibre to the home, it will take five to 10 years to develop it. The 14th Communications Management Association (CMA...
[07 Feb 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. B is for BT The analyst said the UK's telecoms landscape is set for...
[01 Feb 2008]
Comment The changes we are seeing now are primarily the culmination of the move to digital transmission and the deployment of fibre-based networks. The combination of digital signals and optical fibre made long-distance communications far easier and...
[01 Mar 2005]
News However, setting up a separate 'LoopCo' to manage the local loop would be difficult to manage as technologies such as fibre, mobile and other wireless networks would blur the boundary and eventually make the monopoly increasingly irrelevant, said...
[03 Dec 2002]
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]
News Although wireless technologies will play a part, the move to super-broadband will require the deployment of optical fibre deeper into the local access network, either to the street cabinet or directly to the customer premises by fibre to the home...
[16 Apr 2007]
News Lars Goddall, principal analyst at research company Forrester, said Reding's approach to structural sharing leaves a lot to be desired in the case of high-speed fibre broadband networks, such as Deutsche Telekom's.
[28 Jun 2006]
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