While service providers have largely kept up with the networking demands related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vodafone is upgrading its network by 4 Tbps of capacity in order to be ready for the long haul. According to a blog post by Vodafone Group CTO Johan Wibergh, his company has seen six months of forecast demand growth emerge over the past month as more countries have adopted outright quarantines or stay-at-home policies.
Network updates from service providers during the COVID-19 outbreak have become weekly, or even daily, affairs for most of the world’s largest service providers, but Vodafone has a unique perspective.
