Super-fast broadband hits UK
- Added:
- Jun 30, 2005
The service will run at 24MB per
second and claims to be the fastest in the UK. However, as yet the
company has not released pricing details.
Using ADSL2+ technology that doubles the download bandwidth, together with LLU (Local Loop Unbundling), Be’s new service will start in London and expand to the rest of the UK.
Boris Ivanovic, co-founder of Be, said: ""The deregulation of the market makes this a very exciting time for the UK. There is no reason to drag out the increase in speed and launch in steps of 1 meg or 2 meg when the capability is there to offer the maximum speeds available – which is what Be is all about."
Ivanovic also owns Sweden’s fledgling ISP Bostream, which launched 26MB broadband. The service now boasts 100,000 customers.
Be says it is able to offer the faster speeds because it will be using brand new technology from, including Alcatel’s latest generation DSLAM (the Alcatel 7302 Intelligent Services Access Manager), as well as aggregation and routing equipment.
Michel Rahier, in charge of Alcatel’s fixed communications activities said: "Be has a very exciting proposition for the UK market and has promising plans for their evolution towards a user-centric triple play service offering."
Last year the Network Interconnect Consultative Committee - Britain's main broadband standards body - agreed to support a new technology that will transmit information on BT's existing copper wire network 35 times faster than current ADSL technology.
The new technology is designed to allow firms to offer convergent communications.
Effectively this would allow for super-fast broadband internet access across multiple users within a household, cheap phone calls over VoIP, multichannel TV and video on demand, all to be delivered over the current BT network infrastructure.
France and Sweden already have similar technology, but only after they had banned another technology, VDSL. Britain too has VDSL but it has been reluctant to scrap it at the behest of several operators, as it allows them to connect to homes that are otherwise out of the existing reach of broadband.
Using ADSL2+ technology that doubles the download bandwidth, together with LLU (Local Loop Unbundling), Be’s new service will start in London and expand to the rest of the UK.
Boris Ivanovic, co-founder of Be, said: ""The deregulation of the market makes this a very exciting time for the UK. There is no reason to drag out the increase in speed and launch in steps of 1 meg or 2 meg when the capability is there to offer the maximum speeds available – which is what Be is all about."
Ivanovic also owns Sweden’s fledgling ISP Bostream, which launched 26MB broadband. The service now boasts 100,000 customers.
Be says it is able to offer the faster speeds because it will be using brand new technology from, including Alcatel’s latest generation DSLAM (the Alcatel 7302 Intelligent Services Access Manager), as well as aggregation and routing equipment.
Michel Rahier, in charge of Alcatel’s fixed communications activities said: "Be has a very exciting proposition for the UK market and has promising plans for their evolution towards a user-centric triple play service offering."
Last year the Network Interconnect Consultative Committee - Britain's main broadband standards body - agreed to support a new technology that will transmit information on BT's existing copper wire network 35 times faster than current ADSL technology.
The new technology is designed to allow firms to offer convergent communications.
Effectively this would allow for super-fast broadband internet access across multiple users within a household, cheap phone calls over VoIP, multichannel TV and video on demand, all to be delivered over the current BT network infrastructure.
France and Sweden already have similar technology, but only after they had banned another technology, VDSL. Britain too has VDSL but it has been reluctant to scrap it at the behest of several operators, as it allows them to connect to homes that are otherwise out of the existing reach of broadband.
