It's been a few weeks since we last spoke to you about how our ADSL2+ trials via 21CN have been going. With the following article being published on Think Broadband we thought now would be an appropriate time to post a quick update. First of all we need to just define the different products that are available from BT Wholesale. There's WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) and WBMC (Wholesale Broadband Managed Connect) which are the ADSL2+ connectivity products and the new backhaul links to transfer the customer data from exchange to the ISP. The second product is IPStream Connect, this allows an ISP to use it's 21CN backhaul to connect exchanges with only 20CN customers (i.e. the existing IPStream Max/fixed rate products). At the moment IPStream Connect isn't available on WBMC (the WBC version was made available earlier this year) and isn't expected to be available until later next year. This doesn't though affect the availability and rollout of ADSL2+ as these are completely seperate. As far as our trial is concerned our backhaul link has been successfully installed and our first staff orders are currently in progress and expect to have the first one live in the next week or so. We'll post a further update in the next couple of weeks to let you know how these trial orders are going. Dave Tomlinson Plusnet Product Team
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