Leading the superfast broadband revolution

[timberheadverde]

A movie in 8 seconds..... just wow

[haydnwalker]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Supply a server??

Would be worth it just going for a 6 month trial and keeping the server, some of which can easily be 10k+ in cost lol

It wouldn't be a server they supply... just a Cisco (or similar) 10GbE capable router Which would then interconnect with the businesses current LAN switches and from then (probably) into a proxy etc

[weesteev]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Supply a server??

Where did I say they would supply a server?

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

perhaps they should also trial peering upgrades and uncongested ubr ports

I can see the attempt at humour but what has this to do with a technical trial? Do you believe that this type of service would be rolled out on the existing network overlay with no concern as to core upgrades?

[Chrysalis]

Originally Posted by weesteev

Where did I say they would supply a server?

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I can see the attempt at humour but what has this to do with a technical trial? Do you believe that this type of service would be rolled out on the existing network overlay with no concern as to core upgrades?

I have heard no core upgrades were done for the 100mbit and upload uplifts hence the introduction of shaping. So answer is yes.

[weesteev]

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

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by weesteev

Where did I say they would supply a server?[COLOR="Silver"]

It was a joke, hence the lol at the end of post

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Chris

What would the AUP or download limits, or peak time throttleing policies look like?

What they advertise and what they deliver are two completely different things. Oops, you have just checked an email and hit the stm, your up to 1.5gbit connection is now throttled to 10mbit for the rest of the day so you do not have a detrimental impact on your fellow users.

[DABhand]

Surely they wouldn't dare throttle a business line... that would be bad.

Especially if they are getting businesses to pay through the nose for it, I think 1GB is what £500+ at the moment? I don't think they have traffic management.

I think you will find it will be considerably more than £500 per month (as would all/most other suppliers)....

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Surely they wouldn't dare throttle a business line... that would be bad.

Especially if they are getting businesses to pay through the nose for it, I think 1GB is what £500+ at the moment? I don't think they have traffic management.

£25k per annum, so just over £2k a month.

[DABhand]

Ouch £2k lol

Makes it even worse if they ended up throttling them >.<

[Robertus]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Supply a server??

Would be worth it just going for a 6 month trial and keeping the server, some of which can easily be 10k+ in cost lol

Huh?

[nutellajunkie]

the only thing VirginMedia is able to sustain, is the putrid nonosense they come up with month in month out..

Im still waiting on this and that. Now they go and do this..

Cool, I cant wait to see this fine mess they get into..

Or like usual, we will all forget about it, until next time.

PS, technically, over current networks... LMAO!!! what site have you been on, even of the late, that is capable of delivering that, even locally? What is the UK Backbone capable of delivering at peak times?.. Aye, exactly!

[Ignitionnet]

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.

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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Originally Posted by weesteev

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

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

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

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.

That's the cost that was widely reported for VM's Big Red Internet.