Black Sheep you said you were done but here you are again, sadly it seems you cant accept 'any' kind of comment that isnt saying BT is great. That is going too far.
ColinS doesnt have to agree with me but one of the sale points of vectoring to isp's is they can use vectoring as a way of charging a premium fee. Of course for vectoring to work all equipment has to be vectoring friendly to remove disturbers, but they dont have to be enabled (higher sync speeds). Yes the 2 are different things.
Making a CPE vectoring friendly changes the transmitted signal so that vector enabled devices can seperate that signal from their own signals. A vector friendly but not enabled device will not seperate neighbouring signals from its own and as such not get the benefit of increased speeds but still wont interfere with neighbouring enabled lines. All this information is in published alcatel and ofcom documentation, there is nothing confidential about it.
There is also nothing confidential about the capabilities of ECI hardware. ECI have chosen to publicise it.
Likewise Huawei have done the same with their hardware.
I wasnt belittling you but simply stating the information is already out in the wild in terms of the equipment in BT's cabinets.
You then quoted alcatel to state I am wrong yet what you quoted states vector friendly and vector enabled are 2 different modes,
BT may like to treat all their customers as idiots, they always know best, best not to give us technical info etc. but we customers will still get this information from other sources.
Whatever you may state about BT, its a clear U turn on their original plan, there is no way it makes business sense to deploy expensive to deploy equipment that has a 2-3 year self life. In this case BT clearly wanted to have a bigger part of their deployment as FTTP but that hasnt worked out for them so now they have shifted more focus onto FTTC and decided to look into vectoring.
Is there now going to be another post calling me an idiot? Also I dont remember calling BT crap
Saying been short sighted and not planning properly is not calling them crap, this is where you have been overly defensive. If we all talk in PM what is the point of the forum?
I am sorry you cannot take part in a discussion which has comments that point out bad things about BT. Companies I have worked for in the past I dont defend them to the point I think they are absolute perfection and feel the need to defend them.