That’s a really fat pipe!

Do you remeber the Virgin 40Gb trial? On the back of this success Virgin have announced the launch of a 50Gbps network service.

The test, using Juniper’s routers and Nortel’s Adaptive Optical Engine, was the first of its kind in the UK. No date has bee announced for the launch of the new service but Virgin have stated that there will be four levels of service with corresponding speeds: 2Gbps, 10Gbps, 20Gbps and 50Gbps.

Virgin meda now has about 3.5 million customers with the number growing at about 80,000 - 90,000 per month.

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