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Next-generation network rollout begins with €2.5m testbed

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  • 10-03-2010 9:11pm
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    bk
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    Ireland’s next-generation network (NGN) rollout has started subtly with the creation of a €2.5m NGN Test Centre at Waterford Institute of Technology, involving Enterprise Ireland, Eircom, Meteor and Ericsson.

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15521/comms/next-generation-network-rollout-begins-with-2-5m-testbed

    Sigh, another fecking test.

    Stop "testing" mature and already deployed technology and instead get the boys out of the tea room and start laying fibre to every home, like is already been done in many countries.
    Speaking this morning with Siliconrepublic.com, the NGN Test Centre’s manager Shane Dempsey said the project has the potential to turn Ireland into an NGN leader for the world and overcome the broadband issues of the past decade.

    What a load of bull, NGN world leaders are countries like Sweden and Japan where the majority of people already have 100mb to 1gb fibre connections.

    Certainly not us with another stupid delaying tactic test and most people with just 3mb connections if they are lucky.


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    banquo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Couldn't agree more.

    New to the movement. Love to help. Fibre please.

    Please?


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    banquo
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    watty
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    Magent, UPC, Digiweb-Smart already use NGN fibre.

    This is a waste of €2.5m, which could give HS BB to 2,500 to 10,000 homes if used to deploy 5 year old fibre tech.


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    trekkypj
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    watty wrote: »
    Magent, UPC, Digiweb-Smart already use NGN fibre.

    This is a waste of €2.5m, which could give HS BB to 2,500 to 10,000 homes if used to deploy 5 year old fibre tech.

    +1 for truth.

    Just think, how many of the rural exchanges currently not DSL enabled could be upgraded for that money.

    Then again, yeah better spent on fibre - all the copper's got to be ditched sometime in the next few years.


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    clohamon
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    bk wrote: »
    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15521/comms/next-generation-network-rollout-begins-with-2-5m-testbed
    Shane Dempsey said the project has the potential to turn Ireland into an NGN leader for the world and overcome the broadband issues of the past decade.

    I've lost count of the number of things we could be world leader at.

    We might actually be the world leader in the number of things we could be world leader at.


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