ISP Commsworld Win Contract to Build West Lothian Council’s Fibre Network
Business UK broadband ISP Commsworld has today announced that they’ve secured a 15-year contract, worth £8.5 million, to deliver a new Wide Area Network (WAN) for West Lothian Council in Scotland. The work will upgrade the council’s existing service with a brand-new fibre optic network and provide a 10-fold increase in available bandwidth.
The new network will extend across the West Lothian Council ‘estate’, including local schools, libraries, community facilities, and administrative buildings. The fibre infrastructure will then be linked to Commsworld’s Optical Core Network (OCN), which it built specifically to boost the security and resilience of digital infrastructure.
In order to further extend the coverage in West Lothian, Commsworld will also establish new Points of Presence (PoPs) to help boost local latency and improved cloud application performance etc.
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Craig Scott, Commsworld’s Public Sector Development Director, said:
“We are delighted to have secured this 15-year contract with West Lothian Council to provide a new WAN network for the region. We have successfully delivered massively enhanced infrastructure to local authorities across Scotland and England.
It means customers are now enjoying the full, transformative benefits of our Optical Core Network, including lower latency as well as increased bandwidth, resilience and security. We look forward to providing this step change in connectivity and resiliency in West Lothian.”
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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