FibreSpan completes second deployment for Leeds Met University

London, United Kingdom, 11 November 2006

FibreSpan has now deployed the second stage of a bespoke dark fibre network in Leeds bustling city centre for Leeds Metropolitan University, one of the largest universities in the UK.  

Earlier this year, FibreSpan provided a dedicated dark fibre link from the main university campus to a new faculty in the city centre’s landmark Electric Press building, connecting a third building on route.  The network extension has now connected a fourth building (the School of Law) south of the city centre, which has doubled the size of the network.  

The university sought a high bandwidth network and dark fibre was identified as the preferred technology.  Its bandwidth requirements are continually expanding as it runs an increasing number of services across the network - it also has a longer-term strategy to run voice communications over Ethernet.

The university was attracted to FibreSpan’s affordable and competitive solution, winning the contract against a BT and other incumbent Telcos with network already present in the area.  

Tony Crossland, Network Manager at Leeds Metropolitan University comments:  “Both stages of the deployment have proved to be a tremendous success, deployed rapidly and without disruption in a busy city centre.  We now have FibreSpan’s dedicated communication links between our buildings, which provides us with unlimited bandwidth for the duration of our contract, at a fixed and competitive price.”