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Sky Broadband Confirms Capacity Boost with First UK 100G Optical Network

Posted: 10th Jan, 2012 By: MarkJ
best sky BskyB broadband ukalcatel lucentGlobal telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent and UK ISP Sky Broadband (BSkyB) have today claimed success in a deployment of the "country’s first 100G high-speed optical transmission network", which will deliver a significant internet capacity boost to Sky's customers.

The effort directly relates to our previous report on 2nd December 2011 (Sky Broadband Installs Massive 7Tbps Internet Capacity Upgrade), which revealed Sky's plan to install five new ultra fast fibre optic links around the country during 2012.

Each link will be based off Alcatel-Lucent's 100G optical coherent technology, which uses Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) to push data speeds of 100Gbps (Gigabits per second) over each of the 88 wavelengths of an optical fibre. For Sky the work is apparently a "relatively simple, quick and cost effective" in-service network upgrade.

Sky's Director of Network Services, Mohamed Hammady, said:

"Millions of Sky customers use our broadband network to enjoy video and other high bandwidth services. Part of the reason we have been the UK’s fastest growing ISP since our launch in 2006 is that we offer a high-quality, good value and reliable service that’s genuinely unlimited and is free from any form of traffic management.

We can do this because of the investment we make in our state-of-the-art, all-fiber core trunk network. With the introduction of Alcatel-Lucent’s leading edge technology, we only enhance our ability to define the Sky broadband experience through our high capacity core network."

Lucy Dimes, CEO UK & Ireland at Alcatel-Lucent, added:

"High-definition video and other broadband services are driving up the volume of data being transported on networks today. This trend is driving us to continuously introduce new innovations into our portfolio, while ensuring that our customers can continue to benefit from the investments they have already made.

The introduction of 100G with Sky offers a clear example of the benefits to this approach. It also reinforces our leadership in 100G - 15 months since our launch of this technology we are still the only vendor capable of delivering this kind of speed and capacity on existing networks."

The first 100G link has already gone live between Birmingham and London and additional links will certainly help to support Sky's 3.5 million broadband customers as their usage continues to grow. By June 2012 Sky expects to hit an overall total for network traffic of 700Gbps!

Crucially Sky has yet to launch its own selection of superfast broadband packages and, aside from a few closed trials, hasn't revealed much about its future intentions. Sky has survived quite well without such services but at some point, over the next year or two, that will probably begin to change. Today's upgrade news could be seen as helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of superfast packages.
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