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2010/05/07
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PRMG member first external user of SIXXS POP provided by EPT

Emile, a member of the non-profit organisation PRMG, is the first external user on the EPT SIXXS IPv6 tunnel server.

EPT is providing a public SIXXS POP since beginning of March 2010, until May 5only 2 SIXXS and 5 EPT employees were registered at the EPT IPv6 tunneling server. 1 subnet was assigned to a SIXXS employee and 3 subnets to EPT employees. At the time of writing, 8 /64 networks and 4 /48 networks were in use.

2010/04/26
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EPT releases new price list and products

On May 15, 2010 EPT will apply a new price list. The changes I found are:

  • calls to EMSAT (+8213) will be rated at 3,00 EUR (previously 1,8394 EUR)
  • calls to IRIDIUM (+8816, +8817) will be rated at 3,50 EUR (previously 1,8394 EUR)
  • a new product LuxFibre, based on FTTH, is added to the offering, bandwidths available are 30/2, 50/4 and 100/6 Mbps
  • a Voice over Ethernet product, limited to 1 or 3 concurrent calls, calls are rated at the same as for POTS and ISDN lines

According to the documents available to the alternative operators clearly indicate that the VDSL and FTTH based services are available without POTS or ISDN lines.

EPT is offering the LuxFibre access product with a Fritz+Box 7570 VDSL, but be aware that the telephony services provided by EPT will probably disable all access to alternative VoIP operators from that Fritz!Box.

2010/02/27
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EPT finally rolling out new bandwidth settings to DSL subscribers [UPDATE]

In January 2010 P&T Luxembourg announced new bandwidth profiles for their LuxDSL product. Having access to 3 different DSL connection at 3 different locations, I was waiting for the update to arrive on the connections. Some P&T Luxembourg subscribers were contacted that the DSL equipement used on their connection is unable to function properly after 2nd Frebruary 2010, I got one of these letters for a location which still didn’t get the new bandwidth profiles. Currently 1 of the 3 locations got the new bandwidth profiles. Continue Reading →

2010/01/19
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Development version of SS7PCC released [UPDATE]

Today I have released my SS7/C7 point code converter PHP class as open source software on launchpad. The code is released under the GPLv3 license. The main purpose of the class is to convert Signaling Point Codes from and to the following formats:

  • decimal
  • binary
  • hexadecimal
  • ITU (3-8-3)
  • ILR (Institut Luxembourgois de Régulation) (7-4-3, as used in Luxembourg)
  • BNA (Bundes Netz Agentur) (4-3-4-3, as used in Germany)

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2010/01/19
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EPT brings new bandwidth profiles for their ADSL products

The EPT website has been updated to reflect new bandwidth profiles for their ADSL products. Some pages announce speeds of:

  • 5 Mb/s downstream & 512 kb/s upstream (formerly 2 Mb/s & 192 kb/s)
  • 10 Mb/s downstream & 640 kb/s upstream (formerly 8 Mb/s & 256 kb/s)
  • 20 Mb/s downstream & 768 kb/s upstream formerly 15 Mb/s & 384 kb/s)

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