CityFibre and HighNet are to collaborate on a project to transform Glasgow's digital connectivity and make it Scotland's third Gigabit City. CityFibre is to build an ultra-fast pure fibre network in Glasgow with HighNet, the Scottish ISP providing services to thousands of UK businesses.
The deployment in Glasgow city centre will kick off in early 2016 and support Internet connectivity up to 100 times faster than the UK average.
A dense network build in Glasgow city centre will be the first phase of deployment, and among the first businesses to benefit will be the customers of HighNet's channel partners.
Up to 15,000 businesses across the city will stand to benefit when the city-wide roll-out is completed, based on CityFibre's Well Planned City model. Other projects include Aberdeen, Coventry, Edinburgh, Peterborough and York.
"This design approach accommodates current and future capacity requirements from the business community, public sector, mobile operators and data centre providers," said Greg Mesch, CityFibre CEO (pictured above).
"Ultimately, the network could form a backbone for a future deployment of a gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-home access network.
"HighNet has made this project possible and its strong customer base and partner network will be crucial to its success."
Glasgow is CityFibre's third Gigabit City project in Scotland, and when complete CityFibre will have an established network presence in Scotland's four largest cities, making it the largest wholesale fibre infrastructure provider in the country after BT Openreach, claimed Mesch.
HighNet MD David J Siegel (pictured left) added: "This collaboration marks a step change in HighNet's evolution as a B2B ISP. Access to high quality, high capacity Internet capability can be truly transformational and we are leading the charge in Glasgow."