The Dutch telco VodafoneZiggo has completed the national rollout of a giga network that began three years ago in the city of Utrecht.
This follows the connection of 21,000 houses and companies in Soest, offering them download speeds of 1 Gbps. Technicians have in total replaced 7.3 million connectors, 1.7 million connection cables and 441,000 amplifiers in street cabinets throughout the country and the giga network now reaches more than 7 million houses and companies.
Commenting on the network completion, Jeroen Hoencamp, CEO of VodafoneZiggo, said: “In recent years, we’ve seen our customers using more and more data for communication and entertainment. People are constantly online; for example, extensively meeting through Teams and Zoom, streaming films and series in HD and 4K anywhere in the home, and playing sophisticated online games. Our technology makes all this possible. Behind the scenes, we’re continuing to invest and make sure that the capacity and speed of our network evolves to meet this need. Pretty much like we’ve been doing for over 20 years”.
According to Hoencamp, VodafoneZiggo’s hybrid network is future-proof. “Downloading at 1 Gbit/s is actually just the start. We’ll be testing DOCSIS 4.0 early next year. This will allow us to easily progress to a download speed of 10 Gbps and an upload speed of more than 1 Gbps. These speeds aren’t needed at this stage; after all, there are no current applications that require that much capacity and speed. But with our network, we’ll be ready for them”.
