NTL 100Mb Trial

[SatDish]

found this

NTL and BitTorrent debut UK's first 100Mbits broadband 3:55PM
Just two years ago, broadband providers were fighting over crumbs. The competition was in providing the lowest possible bandwidth that could still be described as broadband in order to offer cut-price services. How things have changed. Most of us broadbanders enjoy a one or two meg services, often with the expectation of ramping up to 8Mbps any time soon. ADSL2+ is now in an exchange near you, bringing speeds nearer to 20Mbps.
But it's not enough, apparently. Cable company NTL is trialling 100Mbps broadband services from March.
In a partnership with network service specialist Arris and peer-to-peer giant BitTorrent and CacheLogic, the trials will take place in Ashford, Kent in April.

Making massive bandwidths available can
only mean one thing: video. And NTL has plans to offer video downloads, multiple HDTV streams and voice alongside high-speed surfing.
It's all above board too - BitTorrent and CacheLogic's role is to enable this content to zip around the network to where it's needed as efficiently as possible, without causing bottlenecks and hogging resources. All the content provided in this way will be properly licensed and protected.
Kevin Baughan, director of network strategy at NTL, said: 'The trial will be a unique combination of BitTorrent's P2P client closely coupled with CacheLogic's network based content caching and NTL's deep fibre network in order to offer a transformational video downloading experience.'
'Through this partnership, we can jointly evaluate how p2p distribution can be a highly efficient mechanism to deliver truly compelling licensed content to broadband subscribers, while satisfying the economic requirements of the content owner and the network provider,' said Andrew Parker, CTO of CacheLogic.
More information is at the ntl website.

[smsmasters]

100MB/s sounds great. I wonder if there will an ADSL3+ with 1000MB/s. hehe

[SatDish]

lol prob around in some ones plans but we need a widespread optical infrastructure first that will need to be future proof for years at the moment there just trying to bodge products on the old copper wire infrastructure if people gona moan at someone it should be BT to egt there **** into gear

[smsmasters]

I predict in 2020 BT's network will comprise primarily of fibre optic links.

[Colster]

Originally Posted by smsmasters

I predict in 2020 BT's network will comprise primarily of fibre optic links.

There will be no need for fibre optics in 2020. Goats will dominate Earth by then.

[SatDish]

lol we well on the way for that date the internet as we speak is slowly being transformed into the goatanet.

in the meantime if BT dont start something like this year then the UK will fall behind the rest of euroland

[Colster]

Shall we start digging our own holes and putting fibre optics down, gotta be a .pdf on Google somewhere.

[SatDish]

Originally Posted by Colster

Shall we start digging our own holes and putting fibre optics down, gotta be a .pdf on Google somewhere.

ill look .........