Venus Business Communications is launching 10 gigabit connection speeds across its Venus Dark Fibre Network.
Changes in demarcation technology, facilitating these speeds, together with the unlimited capacity of the Venus Dark Fibre Network means 10 gigabit per second speeds are available across London.
Venus has invested for many years in building a dark fibre network across London. The Venus backbone connects to points of presence at strategic locations across the city from which fibre service can be provisioned for businesses customers.
The Venus Dark Fibre Network has been built with almost unlimited capacity to support fast connection speeds, beyond what was possible when the network construction began.
Brian Iddon, Director of Venus Business Communications, said: "When we began constructing the Venus Dark Fibre Network connection speeds of 2 megabits per second were considered fast and 70 megabits per second were a dream.
"However, we had the foresight to build a fibre optic network that was future proof and we are now capitalising on that investment as the technology to deliver 10 gigabits per second emerges.
"Our network has the coverage and the capacity to support these speeds and even faster speeds as they become available."
Early adopters of the technology include broadcast media and large developers.
Interest has been high from London's post production houses, working on the next Hollywood block-busters, and developers of multi-tenant buildings looking to supply high speed access of 1 Gigabit per second to each of its tenants from multiple 10 gigabit circuits to the premises.
"Comparing the connection speeds against normal speeds is like comparing the performance of a road going car with a formula one machine," added Iddon.
"The technology to deliver this performance needs to be robust across the whole network.
"A shared office or business park could easily see hundreds of businesses each using a 1 gigabit per second connection.
"The backbone network therefore needs to be able to support thousands of businesses across London using gigabit services."