4 Reasons Why Fibre Is The Standard For Business |
Posted: April 19, 2023 |
Most modern businesses find the Internet to be a mandatory resource. Not only is it useful for marketing and selling products and services, but with Cloud services, the Internet also makes it easier to work productively and efficiently. Making the most of the opportunity that the Internet presents means finding the right kind of Internet connection. There are several options, ranging from wireless (mobile and/or satellite), through to wired. Of the wired connection options, fibre is arguably the most flexible and effective for business users. For a start, fibre connections are typically the easiest to sign up to. Most national broadband infrastructure sits on a bed of fibre connections. With other forms of Internet, you might need to have specialised installers come into the area to lay down wires and infrastructure, and that can be expensive. With fibre, in most parts of most countries, that infrastructure already exists. However, the benefits run more deeply than accessibility (and therefore price). Fibre offers many technical advantages that assist businesses, too. 1) Minimal data bottlenecks In the typical business, there are going to be multiple people trying to use the Internet at the same time. This can result in a lot of data travelling across the “pipes” simultaneously. The benefit of fibre here is that, as the fastest data conduit available, there are no real limits in terms of how much data can travel simultaneously. Say you purchase a plan that is 100/50, meaning 100mbps download and 50mbps upload. This is an arbitrary limit that is put in place by the ISP. Providing data costs the ISP money, so in order to make a profit they will set limits on the data provided based on the cost of the customer’s plan. However, as your business grows you may need greater speed and capacity. In that case, it’s quite easy to upgrade the plan and unlock greater capacity. In turn this means your employees and/or customers will never have the frustrating experience of Internet slowdowns as they try and get important work done. 2) It’s more secure Wireless connectivity is relatively easy to “tap” into. After all, through wireless, the data is travelling through the air. With specialised technology to pick up that data, it’s possible to “listen in” to a company’s work. Meanwhile, with fibre, the connection is physically secure. You can’t “tap” into a fibre cable without physically damaging it, and as that causes a “leak” of the light travelling the cable, it is immediately apparent that it has been broken. The connection will also cut out when that happens, so the hacker will not be able to access the data. You’ll still need software, including firewalls and anti-viruses, to protect your IT environment from being compromised via cyberattacks and the like, but physical security is an important consideration, and fibre is the most secure option in this regard. 3) Latency is minimised When you’re using the Internet, it’s not just the upload and download speed that’s important to consider. You also need to think about latency. Latency is the time calculated between the source of data (for example, the PCs in your office) and its destination. If you were using a Google search, for a simple example, the latency would be the time that it takes Google’s servers to receive your search request, from the point that you hit the “search” button. Because fibre travels at the speed of light, it is one of the fastest options for latency – it gets the data from point “A” to point “B” with maximum efficiency. This means that your Internet will be more immediately responsive, allowing for maximum efficiency. For an example of this working, consider a robot on the factory floor, that is powered by automation. The lower the latency between head office and that robot, the more quickly it will respond to commands, resulting in a more efficient factory that is less at risk of expensive faults. 4) It is future proof One final benefit of fibre is that you’re not going to need to replace it. On the infrastructure side of things, fibre can be upgraded without needing to replace the existing wiring. As new optimisation technologies come online, all existing fibre users will be able to benefit from them without needing to replace and deploy new Internet infrastructure. It’s also technology that you won’t outgrow. As your business grows and needs greater Internet capacity, you’ll be able to talk to your ISP about a new, bigger data plan. You won’t need to shift to a new form of connectivity because you’ve hit an upper limit on your existing connection type. This saves both month and severe disruption, since upgrades can be actioned immediately as they are needed, with no downtime whatsoever. Fibre Internet is cheap and quick to adopt and install. As it is also a consumer technology, there are also a wealth of solutions to get you up and running quickly, and businesses of all sizes, from a one-person micro business right through to the largest of corporates, can find a way to the Internet using fibre that works for them. It is truly a technology that has democratised the Internet for business, and that is why it will continue to be the business standard for some time to come.
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