07 Dec 2009
BT Retail arm BT Business, has won a multi-million pound, five-year contract to provide the communications network for the MediaCityUK development at Manchester's Salford Quays.
Peel Media, a division of MediaCity developers and owners The Peel Group, awarded the contract to the organisation.
Peel Group chairman Bryan Gray said of the project: "The communications infrastructure [to be delivered by BT Business] will make MediaCityUK one of the most digitally advanced communities in the world."
BT has promised to complete the project, which will see the installation of an optical fibre infrastructure able to deliver 10Gbit/s of bandwidth, by 2011. Beneficiaries of the network will include the BBC and The University of Salford.
BT Business will work with network giant Cisco on the design, implementation and managment of the private network, which will comprise 20 million metres of optical fibre capable of handling voice, data, standard and high definition video. It will also be able to backhaul wireless connections.
Work on the project will begin later this year, with Cisco providing the backbone network's switching hardware. The backbone will connect each of the development's major buildings.
Embarrassingly for Peel Media, its operations director David Carr resigned early in August because he was 'missing London'.
My name is Mark Whitfield and I am an IT Manager and author of the BBC North MediaCityUK Photographic Journal timeline.
For those 'Computing.CO.UK' readers who have career aspirations to work at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a BBC NORTH MediaCityUK LinkedIn Group ( http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=79227 ) has been set-up.
This for all those who work, live or have close connections with or interests in Salford Quays near Manchester (UK) and/or in the new Peel MediaCityUK BBC North development (NWDA Peel BOVIS) soon to be home to the BBC / ITV / QVC / University of Salford (2011) and other MEDIA related companies. Why not join the MediaCityUK BBC North community?
A MCUK webcam photographic timeline journal is also available at this group which is updated every week with the latest pictures of the development:
MediaCityUK Photographic timeline:
http://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mcuk.htm
MediaCityUK Abridged Photographic timeline:
http://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/holidays/mcukabridgedweb/index.html
LuvTheCity Article about the MediaCityUK Photographic Timeline:
http://www.luvthecity.com/salfordtimeline.aspx
Best Regards,
Mark Whitfield (MediaCityUK BBC North Group Moderator)
http://www.markwhitfield.net
Posted by: Mark Whitfield 19 Mar 2010
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