Can Cyberspace Access Move Future-Proof?

Remember when fiber-to-home was touted equally “future-proof?” That disputation is entirely partially true, equally it was fifty-fifty when originally argued. The “future-proofing” is right to the extent that physical media does non convey to move replaced when a bandwidth upgrade happens (at to the lowest degree for perchance fifteen to xx twelvemonth lifetime of the cables).

But continual speed upgrades are usage of the marketplace position dynamic. Yesterday's ceilings larn today's floors. In that sense, no network is fully futurity proof.

To a large extent, the U.K. has succeeded inwards upgrading most locations to cable TV operators furnish 56 pct of all “superfast” Internet access connections, though having entirely most xix pct of connections.

In belatedly 2014, for example, the exceed speed supplied past times BT was 65 Mbps. The exceed speed supplied past times Virgin Media was 159 Mbps.

Since virtually all fixed network Internet access connections straightaway are broadband, the ongoing outcome is how to define “broadband.”