Entanet invites channel partners to trial managed version of Wholesale Broadband Connect.

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Voice and data communications provider Entanet is inviting channel partners to trial its managed version of Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC).

According to the company, the trials will run from January to March 2008 on eleven exchanges in the West Midlands from the first two available BT Aggregation Points (APs) in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, UK. However, unlike BT's Wholesale Broadband Managed Connect (WBMC) trial, partners trialing Entanet's service will be able to connect at various locations rather than being restricted to the Birmingham AP.

Entanet's managed EWCS Broadband (Entanet Wholesale Carrier Services - Broadband) service will reportedly allow partners to take connectivity from 1-2Mb/s up to 1Gb/s by using a copper or fibre based 'Broadband Private Network Interconnection'.

Under 21CN, Entanet will collect traffic from all of the 20 WBC APs. It will transport the traffic over a shared MPLS network to any of the other APs or alternatively to any of its seventeen existing POPs/datacentres. Other locations will be reachable using different Entanet Metro Ethernet services, the company said.

Entanet has also announced the trial pricing for its managed EWCS Broadband service. End User access is priced at GBP6.28-GBP8.04 per month; best efforts contracted bandwidth charge is priced at GBP80-105.00 per Mb/s per month; excess bandwidth is priced at GBP200.00 per Mb/s per month; real time QoS is priced GBP175.00 per Mb/s per month; assured rate Aggregation Point bandwidth is priced at GBP125.00 per Mb/s per month; assured EU charge is GBP0.40-GBP3.40 per month; and assured rate session bandwidth and duration charge is GBP0.015 per session plus GBP0.00006 per 100kb minute.

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