Time to boost our capacity, thought Be Broadband and decided to announce its grand plan to kick off works over its core network.
The broadband provider hopes that this move will make it more secure, resilient and will help support IPv6, which the ISP has been very keen on introducing.
The planned upgrade will take about seven months to complete and is scheduled to begin early next year.
Be Broadband warned that customers can expect a bit of downtime as well as their IP addresses to be changed (this includes Static IPs too) as the firm will be transferring everyone to the new and improved platform.
Be Broadband has sent out a statement saying:
“We realise this is an inconvenience, and so will be doing our utmost to minimise any impact this could have on service.
“We’ll also be changing the way we provide static IP addresses, bringing us in line with industry best practice and helping those customers who choose to source and configure their own routers.”
BE also confirmed that it will be rolling out a firmware upgrade. The ISP also said that the prices for IP addresses will not change but:
“With an allocation of six being priced the same as the current four, and 14 the same price as the existing block of 16; those customers currently using either four or eight addresses will have their allocation changed to six and for those using 16 the allocation will be reduced to 14.”
Broadbandwatcher thinks that this is one of those patience is virtue moments – customers might feel a bit iffy at first but the relief will come along with the introduction of IPv6.
