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WiMax will be key to BT's 21st Century Network project
News WiMax is set to play a major role in BT's 21st Century Network project -- the company's programme to upgrade the UK's telecoms infrastructure into a pure IP-based network. Earlier in the day Paul Reynolds, chief executive of BT Wholesale, explained...
[June 9, 2004, 17:25]
WiMax will be key to BT's 21st Century Network project
Talkback You may want to change 802.11d to 802.16d (2 places in the article).
[June 9, 2004, 18:33]
Doubts no deterrent to BT on big IP switch
News Under the 21st Century Network (21CN) project, announced back in June, BT will ditch its existing PSTN equipment and replace a complex web of interconnecting legacy technologies with a single IP network by 2009.
[October 18, 2004, 15:45]
Convergence: One handset is better than two
News The imminent launch of BT’s Project Bluephone represents the first step in a move towards converged fixed and mobile networks and is meant to act as a stepping stone towards realising the telco's 21st Century Network strategy.
[May 17, 2005, 15:25]
BT promises truly universal broadband
News If the 21st Century Network project, as BT calls it, is a success, the telco will be able to deliver voice and data services over a network supporting Internet Protocol and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).
[June 9, 2004, 13:05]
BT taking baby steps to IP upgrade
News Lloyd warned that the 21st Century Network project would involve a great deal of complexity. BT is planning to replace several existing circuit-based networks with a single IP-based one which it calls the 21st Century Network (21CN).
[February 23, 2005, 14:20]
UK VoIP firm lands major deal
News This 21st Century Network project will be worth billions of pounds to the IT and telecommunications, with BT expected to commit most of its £3bn annual budget for capital expenditure between 2004 and 2009 to it.
[September 24, 2004, 12:30]
BT demands open standards in telecoms
News Reynolds warned an audience of telecoms vendors that they would have no place in its 21st Century Network (21CN) unless they could provide conclusive evidence their equipment would work alongside that of their rivals.
[February 21, 2005, 16:05]
Doubts no deterrent to BT on big IP switch
Talkback Hear more about BT's 21st Century Network project by tuning into this Light Reading webinar: http://www.lightreading.com/webinar.asp? doc_id=27226
[October 18, 2004, 17:16]
BT picks Microsoft platform for IPTV
News The combination of Microsoft technology with BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) will result in an exciting set of next-generation entertainment and communication services," he claimed. BT's 21CN project will see its circuit-switched networks replaced...
[June 29, 2005, 12:40]
BT to put 'brains' on the edge of new network
News Full details of the 21st Century Network project will be released on Wednesday, but on Tuesday one of one of BT's senior staff gave a taste of what users can look forward to. Mook said BT's 21st Century Network would allow people to be contacted...
[June 8, 2004, 17:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog BT invited 'Scoop' Wearden to the launch of its 21st Century Network project -- the huge upgrade it's selflessly putting together to give us all lovely fast connections at next to nothing. Thursday 10/06/2004
[June 11, 2004, 19:15]
ISPs wary of BT's network upgrade plans
News A body representing many of the UK's ISPs has warned that BT should be prevented from monopolising the UK's telecoms market through its forthcoming 21st Century Network (21CN) . When the 21st Century network is built, you'll still have a network...
[April 13, 2005, 18:20]
C&W claims big VoIP savings
News BT's 21st Century network project, which will see its network upgraded to support IP, will mean that some consumers will be using VoIP by 2006. C&W's James claimed that the 21st Century initiative is more about BT cutting internal costs rather than...
[July 5, 2004, 16:50]
BT's next-generation network delayed
News The upgrade to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) was previously scheduled for completion by 2010, but now the telco has quietly moved its deadline back to 2011. Back when the project was announced in June 2004, BT had said that "mass migration of...
[September 26, 2006, 17:10]
BT nails down contracts for next-generation network
News The telco announced on Monday that it had reached agreement with Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu over contracts for the 21st Century Network (21CN). CN is a massive project and is likely to cost BT up to £10bn, which it expects to make back...
[March 7, 2006, 15:55]
BT: It's IP or bust
News BT has vowed to rip out much of its existing telecoms infrastructure by the end of the decade, as it pushes on with its 21st Century Network (21CN). No telco of BT's size has attempted this kind of project before.
[December 6, 2005, 16:15]
BT offers London-wide Ethernet LANs
News BT will offer Ethernet networks that span London, in a new virtual private LAN service (VPLS) that forms a stepping stone to its much-heralded 21st Century Network. The service will be "21CN-ready", as it uses the same Alcatel switches that will be...
[September 14, 2005, 15:45]
BT: 21CN rollout timescale was squeezed
News The upgrade, which BT calls its 21st Century Network (21CN) will replace 16 national networks with one single IP network. Speaking at the DigiWorld Summit in France, Paul Reynolds, the chief executive of BTWholesale and one of the most powerful men...
[November 22, 2006, 10:51]
UK scientists complete Grid foundations
News British scientists on Monday announced the completion of one of the building blocks for large-scale data sharing over the Grid -- a proposed network of computers seen as the 21st century's successor to the Internet.
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
