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The Future of Broadband
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& Web 2.0
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We accept, often grudgingly, that we get slower
performance from the Internet at peak times, at weekends,
say, or when children have come home from school. The
growing ease of access to bandwidth-hungry videos, music,
photos, etc, and the rise of online hosted services have led
to this sluggishness…and soon it may become 24/7.
FACT:
20 HOURS OF
Here in the UK
Fibre or
VIDEO ARE
British Telecom is to
UPLOADED
come to the rescue by
Cable?
installing more fibre optic
TO YOU
infrastructure around the
TUBE EVERY
UK, but this will take
years and the cost will be
MINUTE
millions. And this is where
Of course, if you live in
the future of broadband
the city and have access
comes under debate
to fibre optic broadband
content, classic examples because it is largely built
services then it’s not
being You Tube, Face- and maintained by private
much of a problem, but
book, Flickr, and online companies, companies
for many on cable broad-
TV sites or even newspa- which won’t spend money
band it will become an
per sites, each pushing they can’t get back in
issue and ultimately affect
the user to submit content profit. The reality is that
business prosperity.
to the website in question. upgrading our Internet
But who or what is
In fact, 20 hours of video infrastructure to cope with
to blame?
are uploaded to You Tube heavy bandwidth use is

every minute, and when not going to come cheap,
It’s accepted that Web 2.0
we move to High Defini- and eventually the
has created much of this
tion, which uses 10 times c o m m u n i c a t i o n
traffic. These are
more bandwidth, the companies and ISP’s will
websites/applications that
Internet in its current form have to find new ways of
have user-generated
won’t be able to cope. making it pay.

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