Virgin Media wins Met Office networking contract

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Met Office's £97m supercomputer needs a very high-speed network connection

Virgin Media Business has won a contract to provide connectivity to the Met Office's next-generation Cray supercomputer - one of the world's fastest high-performance computers. The computer is c...

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