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UK reaching broadband limit?
Tuesday 13th April 2010, by Daniel King
Is Britain reaching its high-speed network limit?
That's the question being asked by experts following figures from digital entertainment and internet solutions firm iBAHN.
According to the data, 72 per cent of the broadband community reckon the UK is running out of spare network capacity with which to run information through.
In addition, 38 per cent think a rise in data traffic will be the biggest challenge facing networks over the coming decade.
But surely this can't be true? It all sounds like some kind of apocalyptic broadband meltdown.
According to Mark Jackson, editor-in-chief of ISPreview.co.uk, though, these kinds of doomsday cries may be ill-founded.
"The real problem here is not so much network capacity, because you can be certain that no [internet service provider] will want to offer a service that doesn't work properly for the majority of their customers, but rather the limitations of our current copper wire-based infrastructure [ADSL and ADSL2+]," he explains.
So what can we do about this problem then?
Well, install more fibre optic networks.
These will be required to "keep the internet evolving and adapting on fixed-line providers", he states.
And luckily it would seem we're going to be getting some new fibre-based networks pretty soon.
Virgin Media has announced that it will be rolling out its flagship 100Mb broadband service at the end of 2010 via its fibre optic network, while BT is already in the process of doing so around the country - as part of its £1.5 billion investment in super-fast internet.
Categories: Broadband, BT, Virgin Media
