I wonder if they’ll give a us 2Gb download limit?

It looks like Virgin are ramping up their assault on BTs broadband services. A trial has run to test 40Gb connections over a 217 mile stretch of existing 10Gb backbone - basically, London to Manchester. The test was designed to examine the viability of enhancing the existing network.

Nortel Networks 40G Adaptive Optical Engine DWDM transponder cards and Juniper Networks T-series routers, with 40Gbit/s interfaces, were used during testing. The trial was run by Virgin Media as a proving ground for the growing requirements of Virgins customers - looks like we’re getting pretty bandwidth hungry!

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