This cable landing station was built by Cable North West in 1996 (Planning) but later became Telewest and then Virgin Media. Recent Plan’s shows the C&W Rackspace inside. It’s unknown where Lanis1 landed between 1992 and 1996 but its likely this is the current landing station. It’s also possible Manx Electricity Authority’s 2007 E-LLAN lands here. The […]
This cable landing station was built by BT in 1964 and used as a cable landing station between Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands. It also played a major role in BT’s radio network linking London to Europe. In the late 1980’s, Racal Telecom marketed a 40 Gbps pan-UK route via MCI Worldcom Cornwall, through Bristol, […]
Vodafone is one of the most recognisable brands, worldwide with many thinking it concentrates on mobile phones, however, Vodafone is a formidable force behind the internet and this post will explain how Vodafone got so big and how it controls many aspects of the internet as we know it. Racal Electronics plc was a British […]
All around the world, The Internet networks are converged and centralised in a number of data centres just in a few square miles, such as here in the UK, London is our internet hub with Canary Wharf in Dockland’s being home to many interconnections and data centres. Here in the South-West, Bristol is home to […]
Vodafone’s core network in Bristol is central to the city centre, with a PoP at 19A St Thomas Street and could be one of Bristol’s oldest IP hubs. This site was originally set up by Mercury Communications in 1987 as a core switching PoP for their mobile network. Later adopted by Cable & Wireless with […]
In Feb 2000, Thus Plc planned a switching station at Unit B Merchant Trade Park Tamar Road Bristol BS2 0TX within walking distance of the Bristol Bandwidth triangle. Although initially refused. Just a few months later planning was accepted and it became an active PoP within Thus PLC, then Cable & Wireless and eventually Vodafone, who […]
In March 2000, Cable & Wireless purchased a warehouse in Bristol’s bandwidth Triangle Unit 2 Kingsland Trading Estate St Philips Road – Getting approval for changing the use from vacant industrial, storage & distribution unit to telecommunications facility, to include external plant & equipment enclosed by 2.8m high-security fence and alterations to elevations to provide […]
That’s right, Hell has frozen over….. One of the major brands of the 1999’s is gone. Slowly shrinking since its buyout and finally, Demon.net has been mothballed at the expense of its owners, Vodafone. The brand currently has 15k customers and is still using legacy ADSL2+ technology and refused to upgrade onto FTTC, something its […]
This cable landing station was built by Mercury Communications (Cable & Wireless) in 1989 for the PTAT-1 cable. The US side was managed by Sprint and was the first cable to end to monopoly held by BT & AT&T. It was decommissioned at 02:00 hours on 8 February 2004 after it became unviable with over-investment […]
This cable landing station was built by Mercury Communications (Cable & Wireless) for the 1993 TAT-11 cable from AT&T in Manahawkin, New Jersey, USA, it had a capacity of 560 Mb/s and was decommissioned in 2004. As part of the TAT-11 installation, Cable & Wireless added a spur to Brean in 1993, this connection will be decommissioned […]