WiMax will be key to BT's 21st Century Network project
News Matt Beal, director of 21st Century Network implementation and strategy, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that fibre and wireless will play an increased role in delivering broadband over the new network. Beal said that WiMax wouldn't just be used to fill...
[June 9, 2004, 17:25]
BT says no to traffic shaping
News Matt Beal, BT Wholesale's chief technical officer, said on Thursday that the rollout of the 21st Century Network (21CN) — BT's next-generation network — would "put enough [bandwidth] volume out there… so we don't have to [traffic shape]".
[April 12, 2007, 17:52]
Lineo attacks Microsoft 'lies' about embedded Linux
News Instead, networking hardware is generally provided directly on board (rather than via a separate network card," said Dave Beal, Lineo senior product manager for tools and OSes, in Lineo's response. Because with Linux, the source code is open...
[December 17, 2001, 15:02]
Doubts no deterrent to BT on big IP switch
News Matt Beal, BT's director of 21st Century Network implementation and strategy, doesn't deny that there are some concerns in the industry about the project. We’re quite aware of that feeling, and we're doing a lot of double checking and self...
[October 18, 2004, 15:45]
What a hypocrite!
Talkback So Beal calls such practices 'big brother-ish' does he? And yet BT is currently engaged in massive traffic-shaping, which commenced - somewhat ironically - this month, coinciding with this article. Whilst it's certainly good to hear that BT has no...
[April 16, 2007, 13:02]
But what kind of traffic shaping?
Talkback Now, what Beal was talking about was the deliberate degradation of rivals' content in favour of one's own. Well, this is where it gets interesting. Any ISP which says it doesn't use traffic shaping at all is lying, unless it simply doesn't have...
[April 16, 2007, 13:21]
Lineo responds to Microsoft attack
News The responses were written for ZDNet UK by Tim Bird, Lineo's chief technical officer; Dave Beal, senior product manager for tools and operating systems; and Garnet Brown, senior product manager for smart handheld devices.
[December 17, 2001, 14:53]
BT Openreach unsure of fibre demand
News In April, Matt Beal, the chief technical officer of BT Wholesale, suggested that BT would not be inclined to make a big investment in fibre access because, under the current regulatory regime, other companies would then be able to access the new...
[September 28, 2007, 13:43]
Outgoing BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News Because of the current regulatory environment, if BT were to roll out fibre it could then find itself having to let other companies use that infrastructure for free — a serious disincentive to investment, according to BT Wholesale's chief...
[July 19, 2007, 14:40]
