This document discusses super fast broadband and its advantages over traditional ADSL broadband. Super fast broadband uses fiber optic cables for most of the connection, providing speeds between 10 and 100Mb. This makes it much faster and more secure than ADSL broadband, whose speed decreases the further the user is located from the telephone exchange. Super fast broadband enables high quality video conferencing, cloud services, online storage, remote working, and fast downloading of music, TV shows, and movies. Major providers of super fast broadband in the UK include BT Infinity and Virgin Media.

1. Super fast broadband

2. Katie Fenton
Aviemore Business Solutions

3. What is it?
• High speed data connection which uses fibre
for most of its length
• Most cases will use copper (phone type) for
the last part of the connection
• Speed available between 10 and 100Mb

4. What difference does it
make
• ADSL Broadband suffers from attenuation (the
further you are from the exchange the slower
the broadband)
• Much faster
• Secure and immune to crosstalk

5. Why would I need it?
• More and more services are being delivered
over data connections (cloud services)
• Internet TV, iPlayer, live sport, gaming
• Conference calls
• Online storage of photos

6. For business use?
• Low cost/high quality video conferencing
• Online data back-up
• VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
• Collaboration (collaborate on projects, sharing
documents, videos, whiteboards etc.)
• Remote working

7. How fast is fast?
• Download a music album (60Mb) in 6 seconds
• A TV show (350Mb) in 30 seconds
• A high quality movie (1Gb) in 1.5 minutes
• An HD movie (4Gb) in 6 minutes

8. BT Infinity

9. Virgin Media

10. Thank you!
Katie Fenton
Aviemore Business Solutions