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An Openreach engineer working on the "Superfast West Yorkshire" project in Wetherby (2014) at a manhole. Following the Telecommunications Strategic Review (TSR), in September 2005 British Telecom signed undertakings with Ofcom to create a separate division, for the purpose of providing equal access to BT’s local access network and backhaul products. [3]
For almost as long as telephones have been a common feature in homes and offices, telecommunication companies have regularly been faced with a situation where demand in a particular street or area exceeds the number of physical copper pairs available from the pole to the exchange.
The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet throughout its origins and development. The telecommunications infrastructure in the United Kingdom provides Internet access to homes and businesses mainly through fibre, cable, mobile and fixed wireless networks, with the UK's 140-year-old copper network, maintained by Openreach, set to be withdrawn by December 2025, although this has ...
Openreach (a BT Group company tasked with installing and maintaining a significant majority of the physical telephone network in the UK) maintains a Hot-Site Register, updated every 12 months by voluntarily supplied information from the ESI companies in the UK. Any Openreach engineer visiting a site on the register must be Hot-Site trained.
xDSL Connectivity diagram. A broadband remote access server (BRAS, B-RAS or BBRAS) routes traffic to and from broadband remote access devices such as digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAM) on an Internet service provider's (ISP) network.
A = Prefix: 3–5 Alphanumeric characters. This is a unique identifier. Required. B = Facility Type: 1–6 Alphanumeric characters. Describes the "type" of facility circuit. Required. C = CLLI Code for the A-location: 8 or 11 alphanumeric characters. Required. D = CLLI Code for the Z-location: 8 or 11 alphanumeric characters. Required. Example:
The process of licensing varies depending on the type of use required. Some licences simply have to be applied and paid for; other commercial licences are subject to a bidding process. Most of the procedures in place have been inherited from the systems used by the previous regulators. However, Ofcom may change some of these processes in future.
CHAP is an authentication scheme originally used by Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) servers to validate the identity of remote clients. CHAP periodically verifies the identity of the client by using a three-way handshake.