Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 58 | Page 9

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Giganet chooses Neos Networks to drive UK network expansion

Through strategic network partnerships , Giganet is already able to offer full fibre broadband services to millions of homes and businesses all over the UK . The next step for Giganet is targeting an expansion which will see it cover more homes and businesses , beginning in the south of England using its own network .
Work on the project began in 2021 and Giganet aims to have the core network and first four exchange rings live by end of 2022 . In the next four years , Giganet plans to build to 300,000 homes across Hampshire , Wiltshire , Dorset and West Sussex with its own fibre network rollout . Neos Networks – with its 550 unbundled exchange network – will provide Giganet with the local connectivity required to carry traffic to its data centres and across its national network .

Neos Networks , one of the UK ’ s leading fibre connectivity suppliers , has announced it has been chosen by Giganet , an established Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), to provide backhaul and data centre connectivity to support its new southern counties network and its ambitious plans to rollout gigabit Fibre-to-the- Premise ( FTTP ) services .

“ Neos Networks rose to the challenge of providing us with resilient and high capacity backhaul circuits across a wide range of exchanges as well as our core data centres ,” said Matthew Skipsey , Chief Technology Officer at Giganet .
“ Using Neos Networks ,” he added , “ we have been able to secure connectivity to our points of presence faster than expected , initially enabling each of our first four regional rings with resilient 100GB / s backhaul . This means our south coast rollout is progressing at pace .”

Community Fibre selects TCS HOBS to transform its operations and drive future growth

Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) announced that Community Fibre , one of London ’ s largest and fastest 100 % full fibre broadband providers , has selected the TCS HOBS platform to help modernise its business operations , enhance its agility and support future growth .

Community Fibre delivers affordable 100 % full fibre broadband to residents , businesses and communities across the capital . The network operator and Internet Service Provider ( ISP ) has announced an ambitious growth target , to serve more than half of the 3.7 million homes in the city by the end of 2024 .
The ISP partnered with TCS to simplify operations , sales and billing processes using the TCS HOBS plug-and-play digital business platform . The SaaS-based , catalogue-driven platform is expected to improve the ideation and creation of new product and service bundles , as well as partner offerings .
Its intuitive user interface will help empower Community Fibre ’ s business teams to launch new products more rapidly and will be driven by a seamless , zero-touch rollout across the business .
TCS HOBS is based on a future-proof , microservices and Open APIbased architecture , which will help Community Fibre leverage partner ecosystems to venture into B2B2X models .
“ Community Fibre will launch new digital services with superior innovation and a much-improved time to market for our customers across all lines of business , helping to maintain our 4.9 ‘ Excellent ’ Trust Pilot score and 96 % five-star reviews [ in August ],” said Chris Williams , CIO , Community Fibre . “ The partnership with TCS HOBS is central to the success of that strategy .”
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