The pace of progress on BT's 21CN and Ofcom's leisurely attitude to ironing out regulatory issues could put future broadband networks at risk, according to a senior TalkTalk executive. Speaking at the ...

BT's delayed £10bn network upgrade should have taken a full decade to install, according to one of the telco's top executives. Instead BT decided to try to complete the upgrade in just five years, due ...

includes several quotes from people in the broadband industry in relation to the roll-out of the BT 21st Century Network (21CN). The criticism seems to be centred on providers not being given enough ...

UK incumbent BT has chosen US firm Ciena as a key vendor of optical equipment for its 21st Century Network (21CN). Ciena will supply its 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, equipped with coherent optical ...

The testing, which has taken place over 18 months, has been undertaken on a live 21CN network in order to understand how communications equipment is affected by the network. A statement from the BSIA ...

new 21CN platform. WBC is one of the new platforms used for deploying ADSL and ADSL2+ in the UK upon the 21CN network, and delivering the customers traffic to broadband services providers. It requires ...

When BT deploys its 21CN network it will aim to provide users with the ability to sign on for broadband and telephony services from any device anywhere in the world. The company said it will use voice ...

BT conducts regular reviews of the 21CN voice project and, during the most recent review, it was decided that the mass migration to the 21CN voice platform (including the 275,000-line migration ...

BT this week named eight primary suppliers for its five-year, $19 billion all-IP 21st Century Network (21CN) buildout. The Elite Eight are the culmination of two years of discussions and negotiations ...

The UK’s incumbent carrier BT said Tuesday that it has started transferring the first customer lines over to its next generation 21st Century Network (21CN). BT has started to move customers in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spending £10bn ($18bn) over the next five years to save an estimated £1bn in year on year operating costs, UK ...