Funds dished out to research 10Gb broadband
Network researchers are to receive a £1m fund in order to develop technology capable of providing both homes and businesses with broadband speeds of up to 10Gb – that’s the news from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), a quango sponsored by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills who last week worked out who it was going to allocate funds of between £30,000 and £100,000 to.
The TSB reckons it has the scope to put BT’s plan of offering up to 40Mb to around 40 per cent of the UK population by 2012 to shame. Instead, it has a vision of offering a 10Gb optical network across the whole of the EU.
Speaking on the plans TSB’s lead technologist Mike Biddle said: “The challenge is to identify ways to address the technical issues facing the introduction of ultra-fast broadband within the next decade and to build European collaborations to exploit the technology, while generating wealth for the UK.”
TSB is adamant though, once the infrastructure is put into place the new, fast broadband speeds would give an unprecedented boost to the European business community, helping it to gain “a massive competitive advantage on a global scale.” To find out what the best available is in broadband for your business, click business broadband.
Recently, a study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group estimated it would cost approximately £29 billion pounds to install an optic cable network across the UK capable of providing everyone with broadband speeds of up to 10Gb.
