Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Superfast just got faster

The communications industry has been using the term “superfast fibre broadband” for quite a while now. But with our latest fibre to the premises (FTTP) products hitting top download speeds of 330MBit/s it’s clearly gone beyond superfast – we’re now talking about ultra-fast fibre broadband!

Our new ultra-fast fibre products will be available in 15 exchange areas where the FTTP infrastructure has been deployed. We’re also piloting FTTP on demand in eight fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) areas and aim to make this widely available from next spring (2013).

Our full set of fibre products, with download speeds ranging from 40Mbit/s to 330Mbit/s, is now available commercially. That means communications providers can start tailoring broadband packages to suit small and medium businesses as well as meeting the demands of increasingly bandwidth-hungry homes.

The most frightening thing is, we’re not stopping at 330Mbit/s. There are already 1Gbit/s tests underway in the labs, going beyond both super and ultra-fast. Answers on a postcard for what we call that one!

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