21cn Pstn

[Dustybug]

Okay - what is 21CN PSTN which has a switchover target of Q2 in 2011 at my exchange?

There's a fairly extensive Wikipedia article on it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_21CN

but (in simple terms!) what will this upgrade mean to me? And will it be unique to BT or will it effect Talktalk customers too?

[Brainiac]

Sam knows.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/21cn_overview.php

In simple terms if BT can't get their present network up & running properly what chance of they of managing this.

[Dustybug]

Thanks for the link - I'm sure BT know what they're doing!
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

[Brainiac]

At least I'm safe in the knowledge that on LLU I won't be transferred.

21cnlollollollol

[Dustybug]

My exchange is currently transferring to LLU with an estimated completion date of this Saturday - I should be safe too! :cool:

[Brainiac]

Good old BT doesn't look promising for 21cn & this happened yesterday.

follow this link then click on the video link & don't laugh too much.

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=bt%20village%20phone%20mix%20up&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=

[Dustybug]

Good old BT doesn't look promising for 21cn & this happened yesterday.

follow this link then click on the video link & don't laugh too much.

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=bt%20village%20phone%20mix%20up&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=

Nice lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

[matt]

Sounds comical but I do sympathise ...

[matt]

Found this thread looking for something else, who designed this website ?

Just as a matter of interest, BT's 21CN network is basically them ripping out their old kit and moving their lines over to newly installed Huawei MSANs ... sound familiar ?

[Brainiac]

Found this thread looking for something else, who designed this website ?

Just as a matter of interest, BT's 21CN network is basically them ripping out their old kit and moving their lines over to newly installed Huawei MSANs ... sound familiar ?

Wouldn't be so bad if they replaced 'Huawei' with something a bit less 'poundland'.:D

[edbradwell44]

Found this thread looking for something else, who designed this website ?

Just as a matter of interest, BT's 21CN network is basically them ripping out their old kit and moving their lines over to newly installed Huawei MSANs ... sound familiar ?There's BT hypocrisy for you....I remember back in 2006 that BT were knocking TT's exchange kit and blaming no end of problems on the Huawei nodes...Just shows eh' matt;)!!

[matt]

Would love to find that on the net :)

[HRAY]

Are BT going to link up with Google to update the phone wiring at the same time? lollollollollol
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

[OCE_Stephen]

I had a chat with a OR engineer last month and he was telling me that they are only installing fibre "21stCN" to new builds and they don't have any plans to replace existing copper, I guess for the majority of us the 21st CN wont actually make any difference :(

[blackeagle]

So, 21st century from the exchanges, early 20th century from the majority of customers homes to the exchange :rolleyes:

Can understand BTO not wanting to replace all that copper, it'd cost fortunes, but it'll have to happen eventually, or change the entire way broadband is delivered.

Mind you, it still impresses me that POTS delivers the speeds it does. I remember reading years ago that 56k was the absolute physical limit of speed on POTS lollollol