Tuesday, September 26, 2006

BT Rethinks 21CN Core Strategy

Ray Le Maistre writes on Light Reading:

BT Group plc is reconsidering its 21st Century Network (21CN) core network technology deployment plans, and may add a controversial new Ethernet approach to its IP/MPLS strategy, an executive from the British operator revealed today.

Speaking at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in Madrid, Tim Hubbard, head of 21CN solutions strategy at BT, said the carrier is planning to use Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), a new flavor of Ethernet being heavily promoted by BT in league with Nortel Networks Ltd., as a backhaul transport technology between its access nodes and metro nodes.

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