rhysjoe 0 Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 Just two years ago, broadband providers were fighting over crumbs. The competition was in providing the lowest possible bandwidth that could still be described as broadband in order to offer cut-price services. How things have changed. Most of us broadbanders enjoy a one or two meg services, often with the expectation of ramping up to 8Mbps any time soon. ADSL2+ is now in an exchange near you, bringing speeds nearer to 20Mbps. But it's not enough, apparently. Cable company NTL is trialling 100Mbps broadband services from March. In a partnership with network service specialist Arris and peer-to-peer giant BitTorrent and CacheLogic, the trials will take place in Ashford, Kent in April. Making massive bandwidths available can only mean one thing: video. And NTL has plans to offer video downloads, multiple HDTV streams and voice alongside high-speed surfing. It's all above board too - BitTorrent and CacheLogic's role is to enable this content to zip around the network to where it's needed as efficiently as possible, without causing bottlenecks and hogging resources. All the content provided in this way will be properly licensed and protected. Kevin Baughan, director of network strategy at NTL, said: 'The trial will be a unique combination of BitTorrent's P2P client closely coupled with CacheLogic's network based content caching and NTL's deep fibre network in order to offer a transformational video downloading experience.' 'Through this partnership, we can jointly evaluate how p2p distribution can be a highly efficient mechanism to deliver truly compelling licensed content to broadband subscribers, while satisfying the economic requirements of the content owner and the network provider,' said Andrew Parker, CTO of CacheLogic. More information is at the ntl website. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 Wow, thanks for the info! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dick Splash 23 Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 Hmmmm.....why Ashford? I thought ahaaaa....conspiracy.....it's the HQ of British Army Intelligence ........but then I thought....Oh yeah!....they moved some years ago. Oh well, conspiracy theory over with. DS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin 0 Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 Trials, that means we in the West Country will get it ten years later. Ta for Info Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Well at least you're not stuck in the midlands which they've avoided upgrading like the plague Quote Link to post Share on other sites
=warcloud= 0 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 One of the best isp's in britain i think? i had a ntl rep call a while back telling me of 10 and 18mb fibre optic broadband. Some folk were having speed problems with the 10mb broadband, according to this forum http://www.cableforum.co.uk/? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobblers 12 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Yeah, I've read about this on ispreview.co.uk. Sounds good, but can their servers handle the demand? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pz3 338 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 sounds cool. I cant wait to download high def movies. Wonder what our ISP is working on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Telewest are having problems in some areas, I was reading of people having problems and telewest tech support telling them that the UBR's were running at 94%+ capacity so once everyone is on 10meg it'll get really crowded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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