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Extra bandwidth 'does not always equate to faster broadband'
IT News |
05/02/2010
Increasing bandwidth availability does not necessarily result in faster broadband speeds, it has been suggested.
Nigel Hawthorn, vice-president of Europe, Middle East and African marketing for Blue Coat Systems, said that depending on the content being downloaded, web functions can still take some time to complete.
He was urging businesses and consumers to have realistic expectations about the benefits offered by super-fast broadband connections.
Mr Hawthorn commented that as speeds improve, the demands placed on web connections by online content ? live video streaming being an example - are also increasing.
"Bandwidth does not equal performance," he pointed out. "People are often disappointed in that they expect that doubling bandwidth capacity will halve wait times and this is not the case.
"If the data is far away from the user and the service needs two-way communications, then additional bandwidth may make no difference or only marginal improvements."
The Conservative Party has vowed to make 100Mbps broadband available across the UK by 2017 if it wins the coming general election.
Posted by Jon Aspinell
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