Remember Sky planning to achieve a massive capacity boost, also known as "the country's first 100G super-speedy transmissions network"? Well, now the telecoms giant confirmed that the first step of the colossal upgrade was a success.

As a quick reminder, Sky with a little help from Alcatel-Lucent planned to set up five new super fast fibre optic links throughout the UK in 2012, each being able to carry speeds of 100Gbps over optical fibres.

Sky said that the works will be "relatively simple, quick and cost effective".

Sky's Director of Network Services, Mohamed Hammady, has been quoted as saying:

"Part of the reason we have been the UK's fastest growing ISP since our launch in 2006 is that we offer a high-quality, good value and reliable service that's genuinely unlimited and is free from any form of traffic management.

"We can do this because of the investment we make in our state-of-the-art, all-fibre core trunk network. With the introduction of Alcatel-Lucent's leading edge technology, we only enhance our ability to define the Sky broadband experience through our high capacity core network."

Lucy Dimes, CEO UK & Ireland at Alcatel-Lucent, also said:

"The introduction of 100G with Sky offers a clear example of the benefits to this approach. It also reinforces our leadership in 100G - 15 months since our launch of this technology we are still the only vendor capable of delivering this kind of speed and capacity on existing networks."

The link between Birmingham and London is already up and running, however Sky is yet to offer ultrafast broadband. SimplifyDigital can't wait for Sky to start offering some super speeds.