The Greater London Authority (GLA) recently completed a project that has successfully showed how civil engineering work by three different utility providers – full fibre UK broadband ISP G.Network, water firm Thames Water and gas supplier SGN – can be combined and coordinated to help reduce disruption, cut costs and save time. At present it’s […]
AustralianSuper and Singtel consortium buy Macquarie’s Australian tower business
Back in October last year, Singtel announced that it had sold a 70% stake in its wholly owned mobile infrastructure subsidiary, Australian Tower Network (ATN), to Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, for $1.43 billion.
ATN’s assets comprised around 2,300 mobile network towers and rooftop sites. As part of the agreement, ATN also pledged to build a further 565 new towers in the coming three years…
Standalone 5G networks will enable true 5G game changers such as slicing & ultra-low latency
Can you introduce yourself and your role?
My name is Kerstin Larsson-Knetsch, I am responsible for consulting and solution design at Vodafone Business Germany. Staying true to our motto “Co-Create. Digital. Future” my team and I co-create digital and innovative solutions with our enterprise customers. Part of our portfolio are 5G solutions, which we implement in all kinds of industries (e.g. automotive, media, smart factory and health).
What have been the biggest developments in Germany’s rollout of next-gen mobile communication networks over the last year?
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Startup Stories: sometimes only made-to-measure will do
Tell us about your start up
Sytronix is a high-performance computing company specializing in the designing and manufacturing of storage and compute servers. The main products we manufacture are NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers for data storage and GPU (graphics processing unit) servers for high intensity computational workloads.
Our NAS servers allow for storage of large amounts of data, collaborative working and will provide security to prevent loss of data, making them perfect for business environments, places where stored data is critically important or power users such as video editors…
Germany is on the right path to achieving it's future connectivity goals
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My name is Norbert Westfal, and I am the president of BREKO, the leading German Broadband Association, since November 2014 and the managing director of EWE Tel since 2011. I have previously worked for companies such as Mannesmann, Arcor, and Vodafone in various capacities.
In my role as BREKO president, I represent over 410 member companies (including over 225 network operators) which are responsible for 80 % of the competitive fibre deployment (FTTB/H) in Germany…
Broadband ISP Giganet Rebrands to Pastanet as AAISP Retire IPv6
UK ISP Giganet, which is investing £250m to rollout a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the South of England, today claims to have rebranded itself as Pastanet after moving to replace their traditional fibre optic cabling, made from glass, with “faster” wholewheat pasta. According to the blurb, Giganet’s clearly highly advanced research team […]
ARSINOE subsea cable system comes into operation
Cyta announces the start of operations on the ARSINOE optical fiber subsea cable system, which will cover the country’s increased need for international connectivity in crucial areas, especially for Internet and Cloud services. It reinforces security on alternative routing of digital communications between Cyprus and the rest of the world and responds to the need for services that require a brief delay in data transmission…
ISP Fibrus Get GBP220m to Extend N.Ireland Full Fibre Rollout
Alternative network and UK ISP Fibrus has today secured a further investment boost of £220m from a consortium of banks, including the UK Infrastructure Bank, which will be used to extend their existing rollout of a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in Northern Ireland to 330,000 premises. The operator’s full fibre infrastructure has so far […]
Starlink Add UK Coverage Map for Ultrafast Satellite Broadband
SpaceX has added a coverage map to the website for their Starlink constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites, which makes it easier to see which parts of the United Kingdom and world can currently access the service. Anything north of around Aberdeen in Scotland is currently excluded. At present Starlink […]
Virgin Media UK Extend 1Gb Broadband to 1200 Homes in Wigan
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) has today confirmed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network has just been extended, slightly, to cover a further 1,200 homes in the Greater Manchester town of Wigan. Across the UK, Virgin’s Project Lightning network build has already extended their network to cover 2.7 million extra UK premises since 2015/16 […]