{"id":8878,"date":"2015-03-17T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2015-03-17T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T11:19:43","slug":"cityfibre-start-aberdeens-1000mb-fibre-optic-broadband-network-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/cityfibre-start-aberdeens-1000mb-fibre-optic-broadband-network-build.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre Start Aberdeen&#8217;s 1000Mb Fibre Optic Broadband Network Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fibre optic network developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> has today announced the start of construction on their roll-out of a new 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) network in the city of Aberdeen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aberdeencore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aberdeen Core<\/a>), which they&#8217;re already promoting as Scotland&#8217;s first &#8220;<em>Gigabit City<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project, which involves working with local ISP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/isp_list\/ISP_Detail_Fixed_Line_Broadband.php?Internet-For-Business-112\" target=\"_blank\">Internet for Business<\/a>, was first announced in September last year and aims to reach more than <strong>6,000 businesses<\/strong>. On top of that hundreds of public sector sites (e.g. schools, universities, libraries, hospitals and government buildings etc.) will also benefit.<\/p>\n<p>As with past deployments the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> roll-out will be demand-led, arriving first in areas where there is the strongest interest. A campaign to drum up support for the initiative began last year and so far more than <strong>250 local businesses<\/strong> have already registered an interest.<\/p>\n<p>The first sites to go live will be <strong><em>Union Street<\/em><\/strong>, <em><strong>Schoolhill<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>Queens Road<\/em><\/strong>. Connections and services in these areas will go live in <strong>May 2015<\/strong>, with other sites in <em><strong>Altens<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Bridge of Don<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Dyce<\/strong><\/em> to follow later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>James McClafferty, City Development Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We are delighted to begin building this network for Aberdeen. This is a huge first step towards transforming Aberdeen into Scotland\u2019s first Gigabit City. Soon businesses and the city as a whole, will begin to feel the benefits of this world-leading infrastructure project<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, so-called &#8220;<em>super-fast<\/em>&#8221; broadband (<strong>30Mbps+<\/strong>) connectivity is already available to around two thirds of Aberdeen and most of that is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> infrastructure (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s cable network is somewhat absent), which is also set to improve over the next 2-3 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the past CityFibre has also hinted at the prospect of using the new network to &#8220;<em>act as the backbone<\/em>&#8221; for a future <strong>Fibre-to-the-Home<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) service, which might be similar to the one that they\u2019re deploying alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> and Fujitsu UK in York (England). But for now the focus in Aberdeen remains firmly on businesses and the public sector, with no solid plans for tackling homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibre optic network developer CityFibre has today announced the start of construction on their roll-out of a new 1000Mbps capable fibre optic broadband (FTTP) network in the city of Aberdeen (Aberdeen Core), which they&#8217;re already promoting as Scotland&#8217;s first &#8220;Gigabit City&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,418,52,56,89],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-cityfibre","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttp","tag-scotland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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