FROM THE INDUSTRY
Arguably the public aren’t as acutely aware of the differentiators that the industry is. We just want to stream content in the main. The sector can no longer rest on the laurels of speed. We need to get to a point where companies will match that price, give you content, manage your in-house mesh network so you have full end-to-end connectivity rather than just to the router, for example. They need to be smarter about their offering. That’s a tall order for small companies that are possibly already pretty stretched. What do you think has changed? BDUK was a brilliant initiative, but the language has changed. When BDUK first started, they promised that by 2030, everyone in the UK will be connected to fibre. Now it’s by 2030, everyone will have gigabit connectivity. Therefore, they’ve
experience. Teleste can help maintain and manage that sunset networks for our customers while they focus on their transition into new sunrise networks, we’ve done that in Finland already, with our NOC (network operation centre) we’re now doing the network monitoring and management of our customers network. While the customer is now focused on deployment of fibre, they’re not worrying about their old HFC environment - we’re managing that for them. It sounds like this phase is about understanding core strengths and adapting them to match what is the new requirement in a new sector. But it’s also about where our weaknesses are. So how do we maximise our strengths our capabilities and move into a different sector? But also, how do we identify some key weaknesses that we have to turn that into a strength and an opportunity? Broadband is just one part of Teleste. We are involved in public safety and mobility, information systems, security, cyber security, which is critically important.
moved away from the medium as such; you can now get gigabit connectivity through fibre, through HFC, through satellite, through mobile. Now that we’re in the latter part of the project, it’s becoming more difficult to deploy fibre, especially in those ultra rural locations, your CPPP price is blown out of the water because you’re laying kilometres of cable for just one or two houses. The business case doesn’t stack up. This time next year, where are we going to be? For Teleste Networks, there will be levels of design and surveying to do, whether that is on the fixed network or the fixed wireless access network. It’s also about extending that reach out to a wider sector. The utilities and transport sectors have aging control networks; if they’re going to be deploying fibre networks to manage their control networks, we can bring our plug and play passive products that enables ease of connectivity for the last mile. We’ve got to start entrenching ourselves into the customers’ business processes; delivering a richer; deeper service
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Volume 47 No.1 MARCH 2025
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