Talk:21st Century Network

Untitled
This is very interesting article. I had no idea of BT's new advancements in this area.

Not surprising you had no idea. Most of this is fabrication. Let's start at the top. The title is misleading, since there isn't just one 21st century network, yet the article is specific to BT. It's not a cable network, given the general use of that term to refer to coax last mile. The system was being trialled in London and Cambridge, but is not in full operation there. Cardiff will be the first site. There is no commitment to a minimum bandwidth of 2 Meg. The figure of 24 Meg seems to be plucked from ADSL2+ and there is no commitment to install that. There is no commitment to roll out of fibre optic cabling. There is no partitioning of bandwidth as suggested. A VoIP line does not requier 256 kbit/s. Cable TV will not be delivered over this network (IPTV has been announced) and will require more than 750 kbit/s. I could go on, but it's so inaccurate I'd advocate deleting this page and pointing to the 21CN page. --Phil Holmes 18:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Following on from the proposal to merge made in July, I've implemented the merger. Given there was no comment on my notes above, this seems to be accepted. --Phil Holmes 16:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)