BT ADSL2+ rollout timing

"BT has been listening to its Communications Provider (CP) customers over the last few months on the best way to introduce next generation broadband services, offering high speed broadband at up to 24Mbps, to the UK.

BT will continue to deliver, as far as possible, against existing availability dates, which means that it will launch the new service, including the availability for CPs to place orders, for around five percent of the UK customer base from April 2008, rising incrementally to around 50 percent of the UK market by April2009.

Within the next few weeks BT will begin a three phase trial programme with detailed industry
involvement to help ensure the new service meets CP and end user requirements for quality and reliability. Stage 1 starts on October 1, 2007 with a trial in the West Midlands. This will be followed with an extended trial, or stage 2, with three CPs involved from November 1st and the final customer trial, or stage 3, with up to 10 CPs actively involved, from mid January 2008. This three stage trial will lead to the commercial launch of the new service from April 2008."

Phil

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Why do they refer to it as next generation, ADSL2 has been out for donkey years.

I am curious why they need a long trial for a old mature technology and is it already tested in wales area or is that just the 21cn backhaul?

It's the next generation to their current ADSL network...

Comms is hard

I doubt its a trial of ADSL 2+ per se, but rather a trial of the MSAN, IP network, OSS (Fulfillment and Assurance) and staff training .

Edited by rogan8 (Sat 13-Oct-07 19:06:25)

put that way makes more sense

Today Entanet asked us resellers to identify customers who want to participate in the initial trial in the West Midlands. Those taking part will get a new PSTN line installed specifically for the ADSL2+ service trial (lasting to Jan08). If I understand the request language properly it appears to indicate that Entanet will offer access to the trial to anyone connected to the relevant exchanges rather than only to existing Entanet customers.

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it is called Next Generation because the backhaul is on the 21CN Next Generation Network as IP rather than over the ATM cloud as at the moment. ISPs will receive traffic from these users differently to the current arrangements.

Phil

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There's been some rumblings that BT may be experiencing problems with the Huawei MSANs. Anyone else hearing this?

Not everything would have appeared rosy with Talk Talks use of them.

Caller ID issues and other things kept cropping up

Andrew Ferguson, andrew@thinkbroadband.com
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