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