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Virgin Media tests 8Gbps broadband
A handful of homes in Cambridgeshire [UK] have tested broadband speeds of 8Gbps, as part of a trial by Virgin Media.
Currently only eight households, in the village of Papworth, are involved in the trial but Virgin Media hopes to extend this to 50 over time.
The technology it uses, ethernet passive optical network, offers the same speeds for downloads and uploads.
One analyst said it was important that fibre operators future-proofed networks and ensured there was enough capacity.
[...] "With the volume of our customers' internet usage almost doubling every year, trials like this will ensure we have the capability to meet the demand of data-hungry services in the future - be that over cable or full fibre," said Richard Sinclair, executive director of connectivity at Virgin Media.
He added that the trial was aiming to look ahead "to the next decade and beyond".
[...] Virgin Media's network in the UK currently passes more than 14 million premises, using a combination of cable and fibre-optic.
The company has been criticised by some for failing to address the digital divide and concentrating its network in more profitable towns and cities, rather than extending it out to more rural areas.
Last year, it teamed up with Need4Speed to roll out ultra-fast services to 4,000 premises in the Test Valley, in Hampshire, but has admitted it is unlikely to reach very rural areas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @07:15PM (4 children)
ssd on sata3 can go ~550 MB/sec.
10 Gbps devide by 8 is 1.25 GB/sec?
getting a decent cheap 10 Gbps NIC and switch is still difficult and expensive.
most wireless cannot relay the incoming 10Gbps.
and if it could not when everybody and their neighbour tries to do it?
then there's the "passive" part in passive phiber optics which might hint that it's a shared media.
devide ~10'000 Mbps by 100 users and you're back at 100 Mbps per user?
i get that fast networks are the fertilizer to grow for-profit cloud services ... but just imagine what one could do in ones own garage with that bandwidth if the contract would allow it?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:00PM (1 child)
There's NVMe SSDs that can do 1-3 GB/s [anandtech.com] (note the 1.7 GB/s in TLC mode for the 1-2 TB models). The content could also go into RAM first.
If you do get 10 Gbps to your entire house and not the block, you could easily be sharing it with 4+ family members, housemates, business associates, etc.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @09:32PM
In the future sharing will be illegal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @10:07PM
Setting up a RAID array of ssd on sata3 will multiply that bandwidth. Different factors for different kinds of arrays, but you can certainly double that 550 MB/sec.
(Score: 2) by hamsterdan on Thursday February 07 2019, @04:26AM
"then there's the "passive" part in passive phiber optics which might hint that it's a shared media."
It is. Here in Montreal Virgin (Bell) use GPON, wich is shared between 32 ONTs