Startup Stories: DC Smarter on building data centre digital twins
Startup Story Please introduce us to DC Connect! DC Smarter is an IT infrastructure management company founded by Jörg Hesselink and Ismar Efendic, which uses AI, AR and digital twins to optimise data centre operations. Our company is headquartered in Saarland, the southwestern part of Germany, with a core team of 11 people, supported by a comprehensive network of dedicated subject matter experts. We have developed the software DC Vision® to optimise infrastructure management in data centres....
“We’re on track to close the loop”: Adtran talks data, AI, and network automation at Connected Britain
Interview At this year’s Connected Britain conference, we caught up with Eric Joyce, Director of Technology and Solutions, EMEA at Adtran, to discuss the biggest trends in the telecoms industry, from the UK altnets’ growing interest in 50G PON to the path towards autonomous networks. Joyce explores how telcos’ relationship with data is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with AI and real-time insights allowing for faster and more accurate network management. “We’ve got the data, we’ve got the...
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UK govt announces £22m investment in ‘smart data’ News The investment will benefit university researchers across the country Smart Data Research UK, a national programme for data research and part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has announced a £22 million investment to help UK researchers access new ‘smart data’. Smart data is information that has been processed to provide clear, actionable insights. Unlike raw data, which can be difficult to interpret, smart data is focused,...
CityFibre pledges £150,000 to support STEM education
News The funding will benefit over 80 schools across the UK This week, the UK’s largest altnet CityFibre has pledge £150,000 to support education charity STEM Learning on its mission to improve STEM learning across the UK. The funds, which will be delivered over three years, will help fund STEM Learning modules in 80 schools within the Project Gigabit footprint. These modules include Computer Clusters, I Belong, and ENTHUSE Partnerships, which focus on the delivery of computer science and IT...
Wholesale Provider PXC Partners with UK ISP Association
Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which was formerly known as Talk Talk Wholesale before the demerger (here), has joined the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA UK), a trade body for UK ISPs and associated organisations, as part of its Partnership Programme. PXC sees the move as being part of their bid to strengthen links with the wider telecoms and broadband sector, which reflects their ambition for becoming the UK’s go-to alternative networks aggregator at the...
Disconnections on UK ISP Zen Internet After AVM Router Upgrade UPDATE
Some customers of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet have complained about repeated service disconnections after their bundled FRITZ!box 7530 routers from AVM received a firmware update to the latest FRITZ!OS v8 software, which appears to have introduced an unexpected instability into the device. In fairness, new firmware updates for any device can sometimes result in a tiny number of people experiencing unexpected bugs, although such things are normally extremely rare. But in this case, something...
Openreach to Boost UK Broadband and Ethernet Network with Nokia’s Altiplano UPDATE
Network operator Openreach (BT) has revealed that they’re gearing up to be one of the first to deploy Nokia’s Altiplano Access Controller cloud (SDN) platform across their open access full fibre (FTTP) broadband and Ethernet network. This could boost automation, network visibility + control, and product flexibility for both ISPs and end-users. In simple terms, this is all about making their network easier to manage, more efficient, reliable (e.g. quicker to identify faults via automation) and...
Lightning Fibre Connect First FTTP Broadband Customer in Worthing
Eastbourne-based alternative network and UK ISP Lightning Fibre has announced that they’ve just connected their first customer in the seaside town of Worthing (West Sussex) to FTTP broadband. This is part of their recently agreed expansion (here) to harness CityFibre’s existing network across the Brighton & Hove and Worthing areas. The operator has also built their own full fibre network across a number of locations like Eastbourne, Hastings, Hailsham, St Leonard’s, Heathfield and more....
Vodafone UK Hit Pay As You Go 1 Users with Huge 100 Percent Price Hike
Existing customers of UK mobile operator Vodafone, specifically those who take their Pay As You Go 1 plan, have been informed that the daily cost of the service will increase by 100% – from £1 to £2 – on 11th December 2024. The cost of data (broadband) usage per 50MB (charged after the first 250kb) is also rising from £1 to £2! Just to be clear. Vodafone’s PAYG1 plan currently charges just £1 on the days you use your phone (£0 if you don’t use it), which grants access to the following...
Airband Deploy Symmetric UK Broadband Speeds and Offer 6 Months Free
Alternative broadband ISP Airband, which was aiming to cover 400,000 premises in rural parts of Wales and South West England via a mix of fixed wireless access (FWA) and full fibre (FTTP) networks by 2026, appears to have quietly introduced symmetric speeds to their fibre packages for new customers. New subscribers can also get 6 months of free service. Until recently the provider only offered asymmetric speeds, which for example meant that their 150Mbps package came with a slower upload rate...