Broadband rollout in crisis
News Co-mingling -- in which telcos put their equipment alongside BT's rather than in a seperate room -- has long been a bone of contention among the unbundling players. Some see it as a cheaper and more effective way of allowing operators to roll out...
[February 6, 2001, 9:40]
Oftel to provoke wrath with unbundling decision
News Oftel has ruled that co-mingling is an acceptable form of local-loop unbundling under the EC regulation relating to LLU. Back in October, Oftel ruled that such operators are allowed to place their kit in the same part of the local exchange as BT...
[November 23, 2001, 14:07]
Major players desert unbundling in droves
News Some smaller players suggest that a co-mingling solution, in which they share space with BT's equipment rather than have the expense of building their own extension, would drastically reduce costs. BT has refused to consider a co-mingling solution...
[April 10, 2001, 12:08]
Oftel forces BT to co-mingle for ADSL
News Instead, they want to place their equipment in the same part of the exchange as BT's own network apparatus -- the practice known as co-mingling. BT has fought co-mingling, but Oftel has now decided that operators should have the right to place...
[October 11, 2001, 17:45]
Bulldog savages BT over 'dirty tricks'
News It is delighted by Oftel's decision last week to approve co-mingling -- where rival ADSL wholesale providers place their equipment in the same part of a local exchange as BT's own kit. He added that it would cost an operator up to £70,000 for a...
[October 15, 2001, 14:32]
BT boss grilled by select committee on unbundling
News The BT boss denied that co-mingling -- in which operators share racks with BT's existing equipment -- would be the answer to space issue, claiming that he was not prepared to risk the mission critical network.
[December 20, 2000, 12:31]
Action demanded over BT unbundling problems
News On the positive side, Black also noted that problems with backhaul ("last-mile" connectivity) at co-mingling locations appeared to be improving. BT is failing to hit quality targets for the unbundling of its local telecoms network, the Office of...
[October 10, 2006, 12:00]
Unbundling soldiers on despite logistical hiccups
News She also said Openreach was "on target again" after Black identified certain "supply problems and logistics problems" with backhaul at co-mingling locations, where BT's rivals are allowed to place their equipment in the same part of the local...
[September 4, 2006, 16:55]
Google Code reverses open-source licence ban
News The company had tried to discourage the increase in the number of open-source licences; having multiple licences can increase legal costs and in some cases prohibit mingling code from one open-source project to another.
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News The company criticised UnitedLinux -- and founders Caldera, Turbolinux and SuSE -- for taking a "proprietary approach", by mingling proprietary software with open-source software, allowing the companies to place certain restrictions on how their...
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Forum: The fate of wireless security
News One such seldom mingling pair is business executives and academics, said Eugene Spafford, director of the Centre for Education and Research in Information Assurance Security (CERIAS), the organisation sponsoring the forum.
[May 14, 2002, 9:46]
Jane Wakefield: Uncovering the heart of technology
News This does not mean Sir Christopher Bland has started wearing baggy jeans and developed a fondness for gangster rap, but it does mean the suits of a UK telco can regularly be seen mingling with the black T-shirt geek brigade who are developing...
[June 27, 2001, 16:44]
Tate & Lyle Chose SIMATIC IT to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency
White Papers The M2T project planned for a new Process Building in order to provide facilities to store and load products, load liquid sugar products from existing tanks, and provide a soft brown sugars mingling and loading facility.
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Java Web Development the Wicket Way
White Papers Also, the mingling of code and markup often challenges testability, refactoring, and separation of concerns. The web application frameworks available today offer a wealth of development styles. Well-known web development technologies such as...
[December 22, 2008, 0:00]
