Virgin Media completes high speed trial
by David Allen
It seems amazing but Virgin Media are actually planning to roll out their high speed broadband later on in the year.
The network is said to be capable of reaching 50 Mbps which is astonishing when compared to some regions that can only receive a broadband connection speed of 1.5 Mbps!
This announcement from Virgin Media follows a trial which involved testing their connection speed over a long distance.
The trial took place between London and Manchester, which is 350 Kms, and managed to reach a speed of 40 Gbps.
These speeds are managed through Juniper Routers and Nortel Adaptive Optical Engines. This equipment is supposed to be able to transform a normal 10 Gbps network into a 40 Gbps or even 100 Gbps network.
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your reporting this wrong David Allen, got totally the wrong end of the stick infact….
this story is not as you think, or imply, about end users packages getting Gigabit speeds.
even the future Docsis3.0 with its full compliment of a MAX 125 bonded channels could only reach around 5 gigabit/s and we will not see these things for a VERY Long time, if ever….anywere.
and your reference to “2Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps and 50Gbps” is totally wrong, these are infact Megabit per second speeds not Gigabit.
this 40Gig test is infact only about the internal core Virgin Media network.
infact this 40 Gig test news is nothing new, or special, infact its old news now, all the way back to April 2nd 2007.
if Neil CEO had infact authorised the real 100Gig thats on the supplyers sheves right now, then it might be werth a mention or two given Neil is talking up a 100Mbit/s Docsis3.0 possibility.
as then, the existing 100gig commercial grade standard upgrade would be far more useful, infact the 40 Gig core network seems to be a near future bottleneck problem waiting to happen, if he does chose to make these 100Mbit packes available sometime in the next 2 years.
Comment by david m — May 13, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
Last time I looked not even South Korea had 1Gbps broadband, let alone 50Gbps!
Comment by Dave — May 13, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Wow, I’d sure hate to be in an area that could only support 1.5Gbps.
Comment by George — May 13, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
Silly me, forgot the tag.
Comment by George — May 13, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
/sarcasm
Comment by George — May 13, 2008 @ 7:55 pm
Er, you’ve got this wrong.
The 50Gb was a backbone trial, i.e. capacity for aggregated traffic of lots of customer connections.
The service to be offered to consumers will be 50Mb, not 50Gb!
H
Comment by Hermes — May 14, 2008 @ 7:05 am
EDITORS NOTE: Apologies for that - now corrected to Mbps instead of Gbps. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — May 14, 2008 @ 10:02 am