Gigabit 4 Gislingham

Originally a Viking settlement and former Knights Templar HQ in days of yore, Gislingham is gearing up to lead East Anglia into the world of gigabit Digital Services.

Never a social enterprise to shy away from delivering 4th utility services in the UK, NextGenUs and partners AFL Telecommunications, a Fujikura business, held a very successful public meeting with the good folks of Gislingham, Suffolk earlier this week.

There is clearly a real energy in the local community to work together to JFDI a local NextGenUs Democratic Franchise FTTH and FiWi network for Gislingham and surrounding parishes that may include cross border connections with Norfolk too.

Future-proof broadband progress is certainly gathering pace rapidly in rural Suffolk, ironically the county that is home to BT's Martlesham Research Centre, and NextGenUs welcomes the recent announcement by Suffolk ACRE of FiWi and FTTH projects now moving forwards in Suffolk Coastal and Parham:

Roger Turkington talks to Mark Murphy about Suffolk ACREs grant to provide highspeed broadband to rural suffolk:

NextGenUs Selects Cogent for IP Transit

As a key stage in the preparation for lighting its nationwide dark fibre deployment, NextGenUs has signed a supply contract with Cogent Communications, a global leader for IP Transit services.

NextGenUs chose Cogent as IP Transit partner as is its business philosophy forms a perfect nexus with the Stupid Networks paradigm, first proposed by David S Isenberg in the late 1990's, that drives the NextGenUs approach to FTTH and FiWi.

Cogent was founded on the premise that bandwidth can be treated like a commodity

Faster Internet in the Pipeline for Hull

An article from the Hull Daily Mail over the weekend :-

High Speed Wireless Deployments Begin in Cumbria

Work has begun in Cumbria to bring high speed wireless internet access to villages suffering from poor service currently.

Wireless services we offer are quick to deploy and can generally deliver speeds of 30Mbps symmetric. Through Community Interest Company (CIC) reinvestment, we aim to replace wireless networks with fibre networks where possible.

Photos below show us deploying a 'node' in a soon-to-be-announced location in Cumbria. Thanks go to the property owner for allowing us to utilise his building as a host location. The pole was manufactured for us by a local company, Campbells Fabrications and Repairs in Great Asby. The company owner, Matthew, and a member of his staff kindly came along to assist in putting it up. We plan to deploy an additional 10 of these in the next 1-3 months around Cumbria.

Residents wishing to subscribe to services simply require a small device to be fitted to the outside of their property pointed at the node location.

We are now just waiting on our internet feed into Cumbria to be turned on to begin offering services to customers. We expect this to happen around the middle of next month.