Greece Ready for 100G Internet
Posted in: Miscellaneous at 25/07/2012 17:33
One of the most interesting aspects of the Cisco Visual Networking Index is how the explosion of Internet traffic is taking place everywhere. We've talked before about how countries such as Iceland and Bermuda are leveraging high speed connections to the world to grow their economies. This time let's look at Greece and competitive carrier hellas online (hol) on how they are preparing for the zettabyte era. (A zettabyte is 1021 bytes, in case you had forgotten).
Hol is one of the largest fixed-line telecommunications services providers in Greece offering a range of retail, business and wholesale services, and they also own the most extensive core backbone network in Greece. Their fiber optical network stretches over 4166 km nationwide and recently they've started offering an on-demand interactive video service called "hol video club" that has really taken off. Despite the challenges of the European economic situation, hol is continuing to see not just increases in bandwidth demand but also gains in the number of subscribers. Most recently they've seen increasing growth in cloud-based services as well.
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