The rapid adoption of advanced Internet applications is driving businesses to demand access to optical fiber networks at their office sites.
This demand is proving to be a lead driver as business consider staying at their present locations, or leasing buildings from another location. If they can't upgrade their systems, information technology professionals want their companies to seek a building that will offer an upgraded network, and they want the changes to happen fast.
Those are the results of a survey of more than 800 IT professionals nationwide, conducted by San Francisco-based Yipes Communications, Inc. (www.yipes.com). The survey looked at the drivers that led to office location choices, and uncovered data on the growing value of high-bandwidth connectivity options at business locations.
The push for buildings that offer greater bandwidth is fueled by the push for the advanced telecom features that it fosters. Ron Young, co-founder of Yipes Communications, says this is a marked change in demand from the past decade.
"Things that are now important or extremely important are not the things they thought of a few years ago," says Young. "It used to be location. Now, it's bandwidth."