On 15/04/2008, David Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [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.
Sound like a company that still thinks that it is a monopoly to me... :-D I left the company after about the nth time I couldn't explain that data delivery did not have to be synchronous: ATM means they are still wedded to the old SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)! The BBC should not be paying for this BT have been retarding bandwidth > growth in the UK for years. Still winds me up that BT refused to get fibre optics to the door, claiming that their copper network was an 'asset'. Still, they used to blame that one on Maggie Thatcher, actually. I HATE ADSL, it's such a broadcaster idea of a data connection, it is an offense to everything truly TCP/IP. There may be a short (or long) term squeeze for some ISP's and for non-LLU > customers of LLU ISP's. Or, as I said, we could install some mirror servers just next to the pipes until this old-fashioned network gets replaced by something 21st century. - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
