The Need For Speed: The Benefits Of Fibre Optic Broadband

Dial-up internet...now there's a blast from the past! Anyone born before the 1990s

will probably remember all that time spent opening a web-browser and then going off to make a cup of tea until the page loaded. But in the very early days, people didn't mind all that much, because it was all they were used to.

Indeed, the very act of going online' at home was a novelty in itself and it wasn't until people started getting used to faster connection speeds at school, work, university and in internet cafes that waiting 15 minutes for a graphics-heavy web page to load was deemed excessive.

Whilst nobody would ever dream of going back to those dawdling-days of yore, a report by the Office of National Statistics revealed that 10% of internet users still connected to the Web via narrowband' in 2009. This figure has more than likely fallen somewhat by now, but given the proliferation of ADSL broadband across the majority of the UK for quite some years now, it seems that some people simply don't have a need for speed when surfing the World Wide Web.

However, for the vast majority of people, speeds of well in excess of 512kbps have been the norm for many years now with some broadband providers already offering speeds of over 10mbps as standard.

Traditional ADSL broadband uses a copper wire telephone line. This type of material causes data rates to drop quickly and considerably as the length of the wire increases, which means that the speed an internet user experiences varies significantly in accordance with how far away their house is from the telephone exchange. And that's where fibre optic broadband will really change the way people experience the internet.

Fibre broadband experiences comparatively little deterioration in data transmission signals and internet users won't suffer from slow speeds simply because of where they live.

Plans are currently underway to bring super-fast broadband to 40% of the UK by 2012, which should see speeds of in excess of 40mbps - many millions of people across the UK will benefit from super fast broadband. Home users will be able to download files faster and in greater volume.

Businesses in particular may reap the greatest benefit though. With higher speeds and greater capacity, companies will be far less likely to experience slow internet at certain times of the day and productivity is likely to increase too, especially in businesses that rely on fast data transfers between its various hubs.

Much in the same way as dial-up is viewed as a relic of days gone by, ADSL broadband could be consigned to the history books in the not too distant future too. And for many people, that day can't come soon enough.

The Need For Speed: The Benefits Of Fibre Optic Broadband

By: Paul Buchanan

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