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Business focused UK ISP and Managed Service Provider (MSP) Connectus has today announced that they’re investing a further £500,000 into the Doncaster Airport Business Park in South Yorkshire (England), which is on top of the £1m they previously put in to help ensure all businesses on the park could enjoy access to their gigabit full fibre (broadband and Ethernet) network.
The investment, which comes just days after the Government announced it would plough £30m into the newly-reopened Doncaster Sheffield Airport, will see Connectus “turbocharge its work in and around the site’s Innovation” (the park consists of 140 business units for start-ups and growing businesses).
The funding will help to create two diverse links for increased connectivity (reliability) to the site, as well as the development of new engineering roles to manage and support demand for their services. Not to mention the roll-out of additional renewable and alternative power solutions to further improve reliability in the event of a Heathrow-like outage.
In addition, Connectus said they would be building new AI based diagnostics and tooling via their partner Kaseya, while some investment would also go toward community outreach projects (i.e. continued support to Doncaster Knights Rugby Union and other grassroots sports clubs).
Roy Shelton, CEO of Connectus, said:
“This new investment underlines our commitment to provide the very best connectivity services to Doncaster Airport Business Park and the businesses based there.
Connectus is the leading managed services provider around the City of Doncaster, and this investment will further strengthen this.
We’ve already invested £1m over several years at the Business Park, which has helped to ensure all businesses on the park can enjoy access to our gigabit full fibre network. Now we’ll go further and faster to give lift off to even better services.”
Covering an area of around 62 acres, the Business Park also has planning consent for over 2,000,000sq ft (186,000sq m) of commercial development.