{"id":9279,"date":"2015-05-18T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T00:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2015-05-18T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:54:52","slug":"bts-uk-adsl-boosting-broadband-regenerators-stuck-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/bts-uk-adsl-boosting-broadband-regenerators-stuck-on-hold.html","title":{"rendered":"ADSL Boosting Broadband Regenerators Stuck On HOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any plans to deploy Broadband Regenerators (BBRA) around the United Kingdom, which could be used to boost some of the slowest copper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> based broadband lines from hundreds of Kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3-4Mbps (Megabits), appear to be stuck &#8220;<em>on hold<\/em>&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The technology, which involves placing BBRA kit either inside or near to a Street Cabinet and then using it to boost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> signal, was first officially mooted all the way back in 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/11\/bt-broadband-regenerators-to-boost-adsl-isp-service-speeds-and-reach.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). It was envisaged as being used to help achieve the Government&#8217;s <strong>Universal Service Commitment<\/strong> (USC) of 2Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>As BTOpenreach once said, &#8220;<em>Regenerators can be placed in or near a cabinet and are powered by new equipment in the Exchange. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> signal is \u2018cleaned\u2019 and \u2018amplified\u2019. Early indications from the technical trials are positive with some increases in ADSL speeds \u2013 although they do require additional network investment<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But since then we&#8217;ve not heard much about BBRA, except for the occasional mention in a government review and a brief indication early last year that consumers might see some sort of deployment in the 2014\/15 window (this was never very firm). However the latest roadmap from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>\u00a0states that BBRA is &#8220;<em>on hold<\/em>&#8221; and the operator has so far not responded to our hails for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that ISPs might not have liked the costs involved or the &#8220;<em>individual case by case<\/em>&#8221; nature of the product. Cost was also a significant hindrance to the much criticised <strong>Broadband Enabling Technology<\/strong> (BET), which could extend the reach of a 1-2Mbps ADSL line up to around 10km from the local telephone exchange (provided you had very deep pockets). Incidentally a migration path from BET to Fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P)\u00a0is currently being tested for the small number of areas that actually use it.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> has been busy testing cheaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> deployment methods and alternative solutions like <strong>Fibre-to-the-Remote-Node<\/strong> (FTTrN). On top of that there&#8217;s also the potential to deploy ADSL2+ from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> capable Street Cabinets (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/bt-openreach-extends-uk-reach-adsl2-broadband-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which would carry a cost but might be easier for ISPs to offer and delivers better speeds than BBRA (this is important now that the Government plans to look at a 5Mbps USO in the near future).<\/p>\n<p>Lest we not forget that similar <strong>VDSL Amplifiers<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> &#8220;<em>fibre broadband<\/em>&#8221; lines might also be another option (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/amplifiers-supervector-boost-uk-fttc-broadband-speeds-reach.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which are due to be tested in Q3 2015\/16. Suffice to say that BBRA seems like an interesting idea, albeit one that&#8217;s starting to conflict with a lot of other solutions for very similar problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s job in all this is to test and find the best solution to particular problems, which means that not everything they trial will become a viable product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any plans to deploy Broadband Regenerators (BBRA) around the United Kingdom, which could be used to boost some of the slowest copper ADSL based broadband lines from hundreds of Kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3-4Mbps (Megabits), appear to be stuck &#8220;on hold&#8221; at BT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,69],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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