[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the ISPs have a point ... the ADSL network is (currently)
like a collection of country roads (narrow and fairly slow) which the
BBC is trying to drive it's supersize juggernauts down. Think the
ISPs should use some form of traffic shaping for iPlayer traffic and
that the BBC and other such companies should fess up some of the
costs involved in improving the network if they want to use the net
to push their weighty products.
But BT runs a backbone called Colossus (the clue is in the name), it is
only the obsolete Asynchronous Transfer Mode equipment that BT has been
forcing people to use, that is the problem. LLU exchanges avoid this, as
does the Wholesale Broadband Connect which is to be rolled out (to
800+ exchanges) over the next year.
The BBC should not be paying for this BT have been retarding bandwidth
growth in the UK for years.
There may be a short (or long) term squeeze for some ISP's and for
non-LLU customers of LLU ISP's.
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