Virgin Media Business Launches 10Gbps Service

As organisations struggle with increasingly large data volumes, Virgin Media Business has just launched a service that will allow them to move that data at much faster rates.

Virgin Media Business has increased the speed of its Ethernet Extensions and High Capacity Services. These enhanced point-to-point services should allow organisations to move “gigabits of data at lightening fast speeds,” according to Virgin Media Business.

Rapid Data Transfer

The Ethernet Extensions Service is a high-speed Ethernet leased line designed to be affordable and provide dedicated, point-to-point circuits at Ethernet bandwidths up to 10Gbps, between multiple locations. This means that customers can connect two sites, up to 35 kilometres (22 miles) apart across the Virgin Media Business fibre network. This solution is managed by Virgin Media Business and is available to both wholesale and business customers.

Meanwhile for those requiring a bit more bandwidth, Virgin’s dedicated High Capacity Services is a point-to-point service that can support up to 40 x 10Gbps circuits between two sites. This should provide the ability to cope with massive volumes, and Virgin ensures low latency transmissions. This service is more geared towards public sector and financial services organisations that rely on guaranteed service uptime to transfer critical data.

“Businesses are facing a tsunami of data that needs to get from A to B without delay,” said Mark Heraghty, managing director of Virgin Media Business. “Data volumes are only going to increase, as is the demand for instant, faultless communication. In today’s business world, time is not a luxury that organisations have.

“Our superior connections have been designed for applications that are bandwidth-hungry and time sensitive,” Heraghty added. “Reducing the complexity involved in sharing information and services, allows the network to help businesses to be faster, smarter and more innovative.”

Virgin is the latest to recognise that some customers are dealing with growing amounts of data. Back in June, Amazon Web Services offered customers the ability to transfer large amounts of data more quickly, after it launched AWS Import/Export for S3 in order to accelerate data transfers and migrations.

Fast And Green

And it seems that Virgin is also touting the green benefits of its High Capacity Services and Ethernet point-to-point products.

To this end it said that it has partnered up with optical networking supplier Transmode, to incorporate low-latency technology with high energy efficiency. This, says Virgin, requires less cooling, saving up to 80 percent on energy usage.

“Carbon conscious companies can rest assured that their high-speed fibre investment isn’t at the expense of the environment,” said Virgin.

This comes at a time when UK organisations are facing increasing green regulations. In April the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme became law, prompting businesses to consider all aspects of their supply chain in order to document their carbon output or else risk fines.