Posted at 2009-07-03 14:18 BST by AAISP

Once again, people viewing tennis on-line is pushing bandwidth
massively over normal levels.

Just to explain - at present BT operate with a pre-set level, which we
increase gradually over time as we move customers to 21CN or usage
increases - leaving some headroom.

Events like this go way beyond the normal headroom, and ideally we'd
like to increase the bandwidth earlier than normal to accommodate this.
However, unlike the promised 24 hour lead time that BT told when they
introduced the 21CN service, we have a 5 working day lead time, so were
not able to react.

For 20CN the lead time to increase capacity is 3 months! Thankfully we
have more headroom on 20CN because of the moves to 21CN so the impact
is not as noticeable. IPSC triallists see no impact at all even though
on the 21CN equipment.

We are increasing bandwidth one 21CN anyway soon and BT are making
changes in November which will mean we may be able to increase
bandwidth to some extent almost instantly, but at some cost. This would
be ideal for events like this.

Obviously events like the next Olympics will have slightly more
planning...[IMAGE]

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Posted at 2009-07-03 14:18 BST by AAISP

Once again, people viewing tennis on-line is pushing bandwidth
massively over normal levels.

Just to explain - at present BT operate with a pre-set level, which we
increase gradually over time as we move customers to 21CN or usage
increases - leaving some headroom.

Events like this go way beyond the normal headroom, and ideally we'd
like to increase the bandwidth earlier than normal to accommodate this.
However, unlike the promised 24 hour lead time that BT told when they
introduced the 21CN service, we have a 5 working day lead time, so were
not able to react.

For 20CN the lead time to increase capacity is 3 months! Thankfully we
have more headroom on 20CN because of the moves to 21CN so the impact
is not as noticeable. IPSC triallists see no impact at all even though
on the 21CN equipment.

We are increasing bandwidth one 21CN anyway soon and BT are making
changes in November which will mean we may be able to increase
bandwidth to some extent almost instantly, but at some cost. This would
be ideal for events like this.

Obviously events like the next Olympics will have slightly more
planning...[IMAGE]

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Posted at 2009-07-03 15:16 BST by AAISP

This is really pushing the limits on 20CN and 21CN now, and Murry was
not even on yet AFAIK.

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AAISP  wrote:
> Obviously events like the next Olympics will have slightly more
> planning...[IMAGE]

I'm guessing that [IMAGE] is :-)

It's just having BT and "planning" in the same sentence...

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Posted at 2009-07-03 15:22 BST by AAISP

We are seeing if we can get BT to up the limit quickly as an emergency,
but I hold out little hope.

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Posted at 2009-07-03 15:51 BST by AAISP

Last time we had anything like this was the Olympics. We have about 50%
more enabled network capacity in to BT now than we did then, and that
is all full now Murry is on...

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