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[Bowdon]

WightFibre Boosts Broadband Network Capacity on the UK Isle of Wight

Cable operator WightFibre, which serves homes and businesses on the Isle of Wight (an island just off the south coast in Hampshire, England) with TV and broadband speeds of up to 152Mbps, has announced the completion of a major network upgrade that has “increased capacity 32 times over“.

The upgrade affected Wight Fibre’s core street fibre optic network, which also involved the installation of additional lasers and multiplexing technologies in order to deliver enough additional network capacity to “see us through the next 5 years.”

A 32x increase might sound like “more than enough” and it should be for the medium-term, although WightFibre notes that the huge rise in online video and TV content streaming has seen usage on their network “grow 16 times over” during the past 4 years.

[stevebrass]

I suppose ISP Preview has an international readership and that is why it tells us where the Isle of Wight is.