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Backbone At Breaking Point?

Posted by Julian christopher on February 15, 2008 5:26 PM | 

As a follow-on from my previous two pieces, this article from Guardian Media commentator Steve Hewlett on the impact of the BBC iPlayer's success on Britain's broadband infrastructure makes for interesting, if worrying, reading - hope, for the sake of all of us that are ever-more reliant on the Internet, that this is high up the 'to do' list of new Culture secretary Andy Burnham and the UK's internet service providers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/11/bbc.bbc

I'd e-mail them to flag it up, but I don't want to contribute to making things any shakier...

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James Burke wrote...

As well as the bandwidth capacity of the backbone becoming an issue, the physical security of the Internet backbone within the UK and also to/from the UK needs some public sector intervention rather than left to market forces? - see The Fragile Internet: http://www.deburca.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=57&EntryID=154

Posted by: James Burke  | February 15, 2008 10:43 PM

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