BSkyB has announced sign-off on a £49m deal spanning five years with Virgin Media Business that will usher in a tenfold increase in network speeds to up to 10Gbps.
The core of this new network is expected to be in place by the end of the year and will see around a third of Sky’s unbundled local exchanges connected to Sky’s own nationwide broadband network.
Mohamed Hammady, director of Sky Network Services at BSkyB, said: “As we see traffic on our network grow significantly year-on-year, this agreement provides us with the capacity we need to keep innovating for customers and as such are committed to maintaining our high-capacity network.”
Tony Grace, managing director, Virgin Media Business said: “High capacity connectivity is vital in today’s digitally driven world. Whilst we’re concentrating on developing better services for the public in our consumer division, we also believe that our high capacity network is ideally placed to provide the underlying infrastructure that can help other providers with their backhaul capacity needs.”