Concerns in Whitehall were raised in to if the UK broadband infrastructure would be able to cope with a Swine Flu pandemic as many infected works were forced to work from home to try and reduce the spread of the infection.
The Concerns were that with so many extra people working from home via remote access over the Internet it could cause the broadband network to fail, however BT have said that the broadband network will be able to cope with the extra strain that would be put on the network.
Others believe that it is the companies themselves who may have more to worry about with their own network as they need to make sure their own networks are able to cope with workers connecting via remote access and to be sure that their network will be able to cope with the extra uploading and downloading from their network, it may also be an idea to add extra capacity to their own networks to help with this.