Fifty percent more bandwidth needed by ten percent of businesses

It has been claimed that by next year around ten percent of businesses in the UK will require fifty percent more bandwidth as the demand for network capacity increases.

According to a recent report around ten percent or one in every ten businesses in the UK is going to require fifty percent more bandwidth next year, with demand for network capacity on the rise as the economy starts to stabilise. The data comes following a survey that was carried out by broadband fibre network provider Geo, which showed that one in ten IT related decision makers expected their bandwidth requirements to soar next year.

Amongst the IT professionals that were surveyed as part of the study were those working for some of the major financial corporations, big name retailers, and local authorities. Over three quarters of those polled said that they would be looking to increase bandwidth next year. Industry officials have said that this shows what an important issue bandwidth has become now that businesses are hoping to see trade improve.

An official from Geo said: “The level of investment that businesses will be committing to bandwidth alone in 2010 points to two important findings. Firstly that things are finally looking up economically; and secondly that, if one in ten businesses will require 50 percent more bandwidth by December next year, they need to think carefully about how they’re going to find it.”

He added: “The fact is that in order to access the high speed, low-latency and easily scalable communications that high-bandwidth consuming organisations need, more may need to consider ‘going private’ when it comes to their network infrastructure. When a business’s bandwidth requirement doubles every two years, it’s vastly more affordable for it to own and manage its own network rather than depend on a patchwork of managed services.”

Source – Bobs Guide