Super fast broadband is helping to attract hi-tech businesses to Nottingham, according to developers at No.1 Nottingham Science Park where a private fibre optic connection has been installed.
The developer of the award-winning building, Blueprint, reports that all four tenants at the iconic building have signed up to a deal arranged with Virgin, enabling download and upload speeds of up to 1Gb per second – 20 times faster than a typical domestic broadband connection.
With innovative businesses increasingly reliant on high-speed data connections, Blueprint says very-high-speed Internet access is now crucial to attract forward thinking, growing companies to Nottingham.
John Long, development director at Blueprint, said: “No.1 Nottingham Science Park was built with creative and high technology firms in mind, and these rely on a reliable and fast Internet connections to be able to operate successfully.
“Fibre optic broadband is the future for broadband, and we are increasingly going to see companies demanding it as a critical aspect of their property requirements, ranking alongside things like comfort cooling and car parking. We’re beginning to see it happen at No.1 so we are delighted to have made the investment now, ensuring that our tenants are catered for, now and in the future.”
The speed of the connection is constant and symmetrical, so unlike traditional broadband connections, it is not affected by how busy the network is, whether the data is incoming or outgoing, or who else is online. The Virgin service at No.1 is administered by Blueprint and Nottingham based IT consultancy, Little Fish.
