BT testing 1Gbit/s

[pdw8]

At the moment, 40Mb FTTC is pretty pointless let alone 100Mb or 1Gb.
Yes its great to have those speeds but what most people forget is that speeds is only back to the BT exchange. Once in the exchange you are using the BT or LLU provider backbone.
At the moment the biggest backbone pipes are 10GE and the costs for these are immense. A typical Cisco backbone router can cost many thousands of pounds and then you need transit connections to the main Internet backbone providers. Even settlement free peering costs money for the infrastructure.
I recently handed over a flat 10GE port to a household name VoIP customer that costs them 25K per month.

My point is that while the local access networks may be very fast you are going to get bottlenecks once you get beyond them.

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

it'll be FTTH so fibre. At present BT are only planning on putting FTTH to about 25% of houses with its current rollout scheme. That could well change of course as as long as there is FTTC then FTTH can always be added down the line.

It'll be fibre up to the demarcation point on your property.

Beyond that they can either;
Provide a fibre modem for the property. I don't think many people have a router or switch capable of accepting SFP interfaces.
or
Provide a copper port from the demarcation point into the property, using normal CAT5e / CAT6 from there onwards.

 

[KIA]

My point is that while the local access networks may be very fast you are going to get bottlenecks once you get beyond them.

Sure, if people continue to pay peanuts.

 

[bloodline76]

1gb down load 400mb upload and 300gig per month limit = FAIL