We’ve just announced the largest publicly available 1Gb/s Fibre to the home infrastructure in the UK, a joint initiative between Fluidata and Independent Fibre Networks Limited (IFNL), which is part of the Inexus Group of Companies. IFNL’s infrastructure connects into Fluidata’s wholly-owned national network, which means that we can deliver superfast broadband via a choice of more than 40 ISPs to...

Ok, so I live out in the country and I’m in the privileged position of getting almost 3Mb/s on my ADSL line at home.

2011’s been an exciting year for Fluidata with the launch of new services such as 3G backup, the new dawn of IPv6 and the announcement of our initiative to help solve the UK’s rural broadband problems. In the wider technical community it’s also been eventful time. Social networking continued to rise in popularity and significance. It’s power to help mobilise the revolutionary fervour during the...

The London Olympics 2012 is the next most exciting event since Common Wealth 2002. The games will open on 27 th July at the Olympic parks and Village in Strafford and will run until the closing ceremony on 12 th August. There will then be a two week transition period before the Paralympics Games open on 29 th August running for 11 days. Over 10.8 million tickets have been allocated for the 27 day...

We are the proud owners of the Cisco Express Managed Services status following a successful audit of our Cisco capabilities. This status, unique at the moment in the UK, recognises our ability to look after our customers’ needs 24/7 from our own dedicated Network Operations Centre ( NOC). After being a Cisco partner for a number of years we felt the standard channel did not recognise the value...

Yesterday saw Britain spend an amazing £456million in just 24 hours. That is £19million an hour over the internet on Cyber Monday - the biggest online shopping day of the year. When looking at our customers’ usage we only saw an increase of 5% above normal with office staff logging in during their lunch break to shop online. This is not too surprising considering half of the UK’s populations now...

The UK are currently ranked 25 th in the world in terms of broadband speed, according to reports, with the average speed at 6.8 Mb/s. George Osborne has recently announced that cities will be rolling out higher broadband coverage with an estimate £5bn spend to improve the infrastructure. This investment will see superfast speeds of between 80-100 Mb/s. However critics have argued that the money...

We will be taking orders up until Friday the 23 rd December 2011. After that day there will be no sales or provisioning department available, support however will continue as normal. The office will reopen on 3rd January 2012. In regards to our network freeze: Last day for core network configuration changes will be December 20 th, this is in line with the industry standard and to ensure maximum...

The Olympic Games will be an exciting time for our capital city, but with over 11 million spectators and athletes set to make our busy transport infrastructure even busier, how will businesses be affected? Londoners have been reassured that TFLS’s investment of £6.5 billion into transport infrastructure enhancements, will make us better equipped to deal with the expected influx of traffic....

Last week saw Deloitte's annual award ceremony for the fastest growing companies in the UK (Fast 50) and Europe (Fast 500). While Fluidata didn't quite manage to make it into the Fast 50 this year, we did however maintain our position in the Fast 500 within Europe.