As the nation’s number one ‘fourplay’ provider, it’s fitting that Virgin Media are looking to quadruple the capacity out of their fibre optic network, in a bid to cope with the growing consumer demand for bandwidth.
Virgin have made much of their plans to pump up its existing 20Mbps service, to offer speeds of up to 50Mbps, and now they have announced that they have completed trials of new technology on their existing network, which should see users less encumbered by traffic shaping during the rush hour period of 4pm to 9pm.
Nortel’s 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a stretch of Virgin’s network between London and Manchester, and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.
The rise of video on demand content has seen the UK’s crusty telecoms infrastructure pushed to the limit, and so leading ISPs have been looking at ways to meet the demand for next-generation services. BT as well as Virgin have been testing out new cable networks, and Carphone Warehouse are rumoured to be rolling out ADSL2+ connections across their network in the near future.
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