Network management Toolkit

Story: 100Mbps broadband a reality by 2007

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C'mon on baby, light my fibre. All these guys should stop pratting around and get the fibre lit and give us unlimited bandwidth and stop pretending it's some sort of scarce commodity. Globally, we aren't apparently using even 1% of the fibre bandwidth available.

According to Peter Cochrane fibre is within a mile of 80+% of the homes in this country today. (I'm 1km from fibre which runs A1 to M6 but can I get on it? Hmph. Lend me a JCB.....)

Instead, we have BT doing copper overlay on TPON because they can't run legacy broadband over it (ADSL), and the UK falls further and further behind as none of these services are symmetrical or ubiquitous, like they have in Korea, Japan, Sweden, etc etc etc. Where is our Gigabit or Bust project? Our Utopia?

BT will play with its subloop trials, presumably putting non-SDSL DSLAMs into the green cabinets, as they have been doing with the exchanges (lack of demand for SDSL - yes, guys that'll be your pricing and the fact most of us can't get it) and somewhere around 2007 some of the notspots might get connected to a type of broadband which many people around the world think is laughable.

Just because I choose to live in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean I should be stuck on 512kbps down and 1/2 that up on a good day when the copper works. I want as much bandwidth both ways as you can throw at me please, like yesterday.

Give us and the UK a break. Sub-loop unbundling, Fi-Wi (fibre middle mile and wireless first mile), lit fibre - that's the http://www.BroadbandEndGame.com

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