News Analysis
Robert Clark
3/2/2021
Broadband operators can expect higher upstream traffic post-COVID, even as downstream returns to previous levels.
That's one of the lessons from Australia and New Zealand, where the pandemic is mostly contained and lockdowns have been lifted.
Look up: If Australia and New Zealand are anything to go by broadband operators can expect upstream to stay up post-pandemic.
Ray Owen, CTO of NBN Co., said while downstream traffic was returning "to where we expected it to be," upstream data volumes were still significantly higher.
There was a "residual in the upstream which will remain for quite some time as people are still working from home... there's been a structural change there."