The UK has one of the highest capacity fibre networks in the world. Virgin's network can certainly support 1.5Gbps, not masses of them without contention but certainly some.
No-one is talking about a single website that will deliver 1.5Gbps although some content delivery networks do indeed have servers with 10GbE connectivity.
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Originally Posted by TheDon
£25k per annum, so just over £2k a month.
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If you can get 1Gbps internet access for £25k per annum please point me to this service, the last quote I got was rather closer to that level per month than per year. About £18k + VAT.
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Apart from the upgrades from 1gig to 10gig transit completed within the last 2 years to support the transition to Docsis 3.0? Just because you didn't hear doesn't mean it didn't happen
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The shaping hardware was installed at transit points to reduce load and try and avoid higher costs on external bandwidth when 100Mb went live.
Sky have 100Gbps to LINX alone, Talk Talk 120Gbps, VM have 80Gbps which is quite odd given the higher traffic load. Even UPC Broadband who don't even have a UK presence have 60Gbps there.
VM do skimp on transit and peering. They carry the bare minimum the result being constant manual intervention to try and make the most of the scarce resource.
How much did the total transit and peering capacity go up during that period? All well and good saying that transits went from 1Gbps to 10Gbps but you and I both know there is no way that VM increased capacity 10-fold. They had to increase it somewhat given they were breaking SLAs on some transits by allowing them to saturate
