AS Business Times celebrates Northampton this month, Marc Lough, Business Development Manager at CityFibre looks at how businesses in the UK’s largest town continue to foster a culture of enterprise and innovation.
Named the best place for business start-ups outside of London in the Cities Outlook Report 2016, Northampton has ambitions to be a leading area for innovation, business growth and green technologies in the UK. With a Gigabit network flowing beneath the streets, the town is on the right path to achieve this vision.
Full fibre connectivity provides a multitude of benefits as businesses gain access to some of the world’s fastest internet speeds, up to 100 times quicker than the UK’s average resulting in future-proofed bandwidth requirements, increased reliability and enabling new technologies such as cloud based systems.
Since lighting up a full fibre network in Northampton in January, alternative infrastructure provider CityFibre has worked in partnership with local service provider dbfb, to welcome a number of businesses to the transformational Gigabit network.
One of the first businesses to take advantage of this gigabit speed connectivity was office supply specialist Bluefish Office Products.
Mark Heath, Managing Director at the company said: “Increasingly more of our orders are placed online so we know connectivity plays a vital role in our operations. In January we implemented a pure fibre connection at the same cost as our lease line but so much faster.
“This transition has seen an improvement in staff productivity and we have reduced costs. These are just some of the benefits we have seen in a short time and would recommend any business to see what a pure fibre could do for them.”
With an ambitious attitude, supported by a strong and reliable digital infrastructure, Northampton is thriving and celebrating its future-proof digital status.
CityFibre is working with local service provider dbfb to offer ultra-fast full fibre connectivity across Northampton. For more information about gigabit internet speeds, or to connect your business, visit www.cityfibre.com/connect
