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Entanet continues pushing 21CN with up to 40Mbps FTTC trials - Jun 2009
Leading wholesale voice and data Communications Provider Entanet is continuing its strategy of pushing the limits of BT21CN with its decision to trial BT’s Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) services, having already participated in Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) trials in 2008 that delivered speeds to new build houses of up to 100Mbps.
In early May 2009 Entanet invited its channel partners to participate in the forthcoming FTTC ‘customer trials’ which run from 1st July 2009 for a period of up to 6 months from the BT exchanges at Muswell Hill (London) and, shortly afterwards, at Whitchurch (Cardiff). Entanet’s Head of Marketing, Darren Farnden, explained: “BTW currently states up to 40Mbps downstream and up to 2Mbps upstream and there is an option to increase the upstream up to 5Mbps. This is achieved by connecting a street-located DSLAM to the serving exchange by a fibre and using VDSL 2 (Very High Bit rate DSL) technology. What this means is that the customer’s experience should improve for applications such as video telephony, high quality voice, web browsing and video streaming.”
Several Entanet partners have already asked to participate in the trials, for which only a limited number of end users are required. The trials will utilise end users’ existing broadband lines, will require a BT engineer appointments and possibly a change of CPE hardware.
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