What is Digital Region?
Digital Region is the first major regional deployment of 'Superfast Broadband' in the UK, not only bringing improved access to a whole range of entertainment, business and public sector services, but importantly attracting new investment and new jobs – for young and old – into the region.
What is Superfast Broadband ?
Superfast Broadband is the Next Generation of Broadband, offering products including a guaranteed 25Mb/sec to your home:
- You are offered a guaranteed level of bandwidth
- Everyone in your house can use computers, play games, watch videos - all at the same time
Quality of Service:
- You can watch live TV and HDTV over the internet in perfect quality
- Voice, video and broadband services are delivered to your home without interacting with each and reducing quality
Multiple Service Providers:
- More choice; you can buy your HDTV, VoIP, Broadband services from different services providers and have them delivered to your home over the same infrastructure
For business:
- Brings 'big' bandwidth business solutions that are affordable to the small and medium sized business
- It supports affordable virtual private networks (VPN's) allowing you to connect to all your locations, or your workers, wherever they are
In summary Superfast Broadband is the 4th Utility, no more worrying about slow Internet connections, or being annoyed that you are not getting the bandwidth you are paying for.
What is the Digital Region Project?
The project was announced in the Government's 2009 budget statement with the project going live on the 29th April 2009.
The project has been driven by a partnership between Yorkshire Forward, Sheffield Council, Barnsley Council, Rotherham Council and Doncaster Council and has attracted over £90m of funding from European Union, the partners and the private sector is the first of its type in the UK, and puts the South Yorkshire region right a the centre of Digital Britain.
Digital Region Ltd has procured a technology partner led by Thales UK and including Alcatel-Lucent and KCOM, to design, build and operate the Superfast Broadband Network on behalf of Digital Region.
