Pipedreams – Digital Britain and broadband for all
30 Jun 2009
Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, explains the impact that country-wide broadband will have on this infrastructure in the UK.
The recently published Digital Britain report outlined the Government’s plan to equip every household in the UK with high-speed broadband by 2012. This will have a huge impact on our Internet infrastructure, because the more widespread the broadband penetration becomes, the more computers will be connected to the UK-wide network. In order for the Government’s ‘broadband for all by 2012’ vision to become a reality, we need a dramatic increase in the number of available IP addresses, the numeric IDs assigned to all devices connected to the Internet.
