IiNet trialling 100Gbps connections in core network

It is using the 100Gbps connections in its core network in a few sites around Australia, trialling it as a "solution" to increased demand placed on networks by growth in network-intensive web applications and increased amounts of users.

While iiNet says at this hour it doesn't plan on expanding the 100Gbps connections outside of its own core network, it revealed it is the first carrier in the Asisa Pacific region to use the high-speed network standard that was ratified just last year.

"It's exciting for us," Balmik Soin, Operations Manager for iiNet Business, wrote in a post announcing the use of the 100Gbps connection.

"This doesn't mean that we're going to start rolling out 100Gbps everywhere, straight away as the technology after all has some limitations. However it does mean that we've got experience with this cutting edge research and can use it where we need it."