FOREWORD
FOREWORD
The broadband debate...
September/October 2016
NETWORKS
EUROPE
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Ever-increasing connectivity
With global IP traffic set to mushroom in the next few years, and with billions of
devices around the world connected to networks, the pressure is on data centres
to keep up with the demand. The way this ever-increasing volume of data will
Not a month goes by without someone finding a newultimately
way to send
vast amounts
ofimproving
data downoverall
a single
fibre,
but how
will which
be managed
is by
data
centre
efficiency,
ever-present high-speed broadband make a differenceinevitably
to our Internet
experience?
We could bemanagement
interconnected
with
experts from
comes
down to infrastructure
and
optimisation.
all conceivable professions, accessing scientific and everyday equipment all over the globe, reaching communities of all shapes
Connectivity
of huge
importance broadband
to all of us. can
Whether
that’s
at work,tohome or
and sizes, using all sorts of new applications and services
— all in isreal
time. High-speed
enable
our projects
we’re
enjoying
a fast
connection
is what
we’ve come to
be adopted across both our business and social lives,when
and the
only
effectiveleisure
way toactivities,
deliver this
future
is with a fibre
optic-based
expect. But it’s not just as simple as what we want, it’s also about what we need.
infrastructure.Tech investment is hitting record highs in the UK and the essential foundation of this booming growth is access to
broadband. In an ideal world the whole of the United Kingdom’s telecoms network would be based off a pure fibre optic network,
Take the success of a small city in the United States transformed by gigabit
but in reality it makes more economic sense to upgrade
what already
exists. Convincing
stakeholders
thatthere
fibre has
is a since
necessary
broadband.
Economically
depressed
in the 1980s,
been a boom
investment is yet another obstacle. There is a clear rolewhere
here the
for providers
to help demonstrate
the business
fibre.
good
city has become
a hub of investment.
So case
whilefor
fast
andThe
reliable
news
is that&
all Measurement
of the major operators are bringing fibre
optic cables
ever closer we
to homes,
butit’s
wemore
needimportantly
to focus on take-up
of that we
connectivity
is something
all desire,
something
Test
Maximising by
Efficiency
all In
need
our future
superfast broadband
businesses, not just consumers.
ten for
or twenty
yearsprosperity.
we might be able to replace the last few metres of
copper and coax with a true fibre optic connection, but time will tell.
James Abbott
Editor – Networks Europe
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