VoIP and IPTV lighting up dark fibre

Not heard of dark fibre before? Back in the days of the dotcom boom, before the bubble burst; infrastructure providers and start-ups across theglobe were all spending millions laying fibre-optic cable to carry the huge amountof data that would be needed for a new ecommerce based society. Banks and investorswhere jumping over each other to throw money at the fibre laying companies and thenit suddenly all went quiet. The bubble had burst and the anticipated growth/demandfor capacity had not appeared.

For between 8  10 years a lot of these cables lay dormant under the sea bed and underground across countries; not being used because there was no need. Now demandhas caught up, and in a big way. Using the Internet to make cheap and often freecalls globally (VoIP) as well as the emergence of television being broadcast ondemand via fibre-optic cable have caused these  dark fibresÂ' to be lit up.

Point Topic research firm  estimate that there were 209.3 million global broadbandusers at the end of 2005, up 56.2 million from 153.3 million lines on 31 December2004. Continued growth at this rate (37%) on a global basis will drive demand forhigher capacity lines and fuel rumours of more transpacific cable being laid bytelcos. As reported by the register(http://www.theregist er.co.uk/2006/04/19/global_bro adband/) earlier today, In-Statpredict the level of broadband users to have spiralled to 400 million by 2010.

Rob Green Managing Director at computer support company Century Computing noted that The use of VoIP by businesses is obviously helping to push the demand for morecapacity and we have experienced a huge increase in enquiries relating to IP CCTV(CCTV carried via the Internet) and Video telephony/video conferencing applicationsover the last couple of months.Â

It is essential that business users understand the need for a communication linethat has QOS (Quality Of Service) attached to it. This ensures that important datalike VoIP or video conferencing traffic is given precedence over less essential datasuch as web surfing and email traffic.

Green commented that  We [Century Computing] are working closely with the topcommunications line providers across the UK and Europe, to provide businesses withscalable infrastructure which will support their needs as their communicationsdemands increase. ----------------------------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------Century Computing Support Services Ltd are a computer support company located withinthe West Midlands; providing clients across the UK with hardware and softwaresupport, both remotely and with onsite engineers.

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Source: Express-Press-Release.com

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