The BT broadband exchange

Simplifydigital gives a brief account on how the BT broadband exchange, used to deliver ADSL broadband services, has advanced in technology in recent times.

There have been many developments in BTs broadband exchange in the technology used to deliver broadband services and equipment for broadband providers.

BT recently announced that by March 2010 broadband users in special trial areas could benefit from high speed, super-fast broadband direct to their homes with the aid of fibre optic broadband cable.

The trial is part of BT's ultimate aim of delivering super-fast broadband speeds to 10 million premises by 2012. The trial will use a mixture of both FTTP and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology.
BT say that customers using FTTP and FTTC products will eventually receive the highest upstream speeds currently available in the UK at up to 10Mb/s.

FTTP (fibre-to-the-premise) is a more direct route for broadband, where fibre optic cable comes directly from the telephone exchange into the customer's home - therefore delivering much faster speeds.

FTTC (fibre-to-the-cabinet) is also deployed directly from the telephone exchange, but it only reaches the telephone cabinet in the street near to the customer's home. From there the connection is made using copper cable and runs from the cabinet to the customer's home. Fibre and copper can support super-fast broadband, but not at the super-fast speeds fibre optic can achieve when it is sent direct from the exchange to the customers home.

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