Virgin Media O2 has successfully connected 1,000 mobile masts to its proprietary 10Gbps fibre backhaul network, enabling faster data speeds, lower latency and a more reliable mobile network experience for customers.
These sites are connected to Virgin Media O2’s new Converged Interconnect Network (CIN), which is a new network built to carry both mobile and fixed traffic that is aggregated closer to the customer, which Virgin says helps make the operator’s network infrastructure more efficient.
By connecting the sites to Virgin Media O2’s own fibre network, instead of a previous third party one, O2 customers will also benefit from a higher capacity network with greater throughput.
By using one common infrastructure for both mobile and fixed traffic, customer experience and reliability will be improved, and the new network architecture can easily be scaled up to cope with growing capacity demand.
Steven Verigotta, Director of Radio & Mobile Backhaul Delivery at Virgin Media O2 said: “By leveraging our converged network, we have been able to increase capacity and throughput at 1,000 mobile sites across the country, helping deliver tangible improvements for our customers.”
