Piers Daniell

A lot of focus on the wholesale platform is giving other ISPs the ability to bond multiple lines together to get EFM speeds using the nationwide Be ADSL2+ network. We have had a lot of success recently with Cisco’s MLPPP protocol enabling multiple lines to act as one end to end. As you can see from the below graph showing a thinkbroadband.com speed test that it achieved 26.7 Mb/s download and 4.0 Mb/s upload on two lines bonded at over 1,500 meters from the exchange. This accurately doubles the capacity of the individual lines.

We are continuing to work with our partners on developing this offering to include more than two lines so that leased line speeds are achieved across this network.

We have some advertising running in the press at the moment on the new wholesale platform in partnership with Be. The platform allows for other network operators to have direct L2TP (Layer 2) access to the Be ADSL2+ cloud so that they can offer this network to their client base. Being the only network in the UK to fully support Annex-M (ie 2.6 Mb/s upload) and Cisco hardware there has been a lot of interest from ISPs looking to take this service on.

Another major milestone has been our ability to demonstrate end to end line bonding using Cisco’s MLPPP (Multilink PPP) protocol on this platform which partners can offer to their client. Being able to bond four lines to deliver up to 80 Mb/s down and 10 Mb/s upstream is a powerful message.