Internet traffic is increasing at an incredible rate. Seeking accommodation for our 'virtual world' and the need to access this quickly is now of crucial importance, telecommunications is quite literally shaping the way we live and do business.
It's important to remember, the internet was not created to supply our current demand. Its original infrastructure was simply not designed to do what we are asking of it, but instead to deliver our data at low, burstable speeds.
Now that emerging technologies allow us to do business irrespective of time and distance barriers, connectivity is becoming core to industry.
In our quest for faster more reliable connections, are we overlooking an aspect of broadband with a profound influence on our network performance?
With business now so reliant on high quality broadband why is there such lack of transparency when it comes to line contention?
There are a few factors which could affect the speeds of DSL technology, these range from the distance the data has to travel from the local exchange to the quality of the copper in the ground. Some factors are easier to evaluate than others.
Line contention is one of those factors that doesn't seem as dominant as it should be when choosing business broadband, but then it doesn't seem so readily advertised to the consumer.
