Prysmian and Comtec join forces to service FTTX market
Prysmian Telecoms UK has partnered with
Comtec for the distribution of its diverse
range of connectivity and optical cable
for the growing domestic full-fibre market.
Global brand Prysmian has its R&D and man-
ufacturing centre of excellence for telecoms
connectivity in the UK.
The deal with Comtec – a supply chain
management specialist in the telecoms
sector – further strengthens an established
distribution channel to service the rapidly
diversifying market of Fibre to the Home
network builders across the country. The
Alternative Networks (Altnets) and their in-
stallers can now access Prysmian end-to-end
passive solutions off the shelf, with tailored
service and logistics packages.
Comtec is equally clear about its reasons
for partnering with Prysmian. Dave Jones,
Comtec’s Brand Manager for Prysmian said:
“Prysmian is a leading manufacturer with a
reputation for high-performance end-to-end
solutions. The Altnets are looking for quality,
innovation and service and this partnership
delivers that with market-leading products,
technical support, supply chain management
services and next-day delivery.”
The full range of Prysmian Telecoms con-
nectivity, optical cable and FTTX solutions
is now available through Comtec’s three UK
distribution centres, with its online service
providing next-day delivery nationwide.. n
Kao Data secures 1.5MW contract
from EMBL-EBI
Kao Data has announced it has signed a new customer contract with EMBL-
EBI, a not-for-profit, international research infrastructure and global leader in
the storage, analysis and dissemination of large biological datasets. This is a
key development in Kao Data’s strategic goal to become the leading provider
of compute capability to the UK’s Life Science community, based along the
London-Stansted-Cambridge corridor.
The EMBL-EBI contract will initially utilise 1.5MW of capacity across six
Technology Cells within Kao Data London One’s first technology suite (TS01),
offering the ability to scale quickly into the new development in TS02 as future
demands require.
EMBL-EBI provides some of the world’s most comprehensive open-access
biological data, used by millions of researchers in academia and industry
globally. To date, their data centres store over 270 Petabytes (277,000 Terabytes)
of raw storage; an amount that continues to grow daily, as new information
from life science research and genomic sequencing aid scientists in the quest to
understand our world and cure mankind’s most life-threatening diseases.
Although a research organisation with global reach, EMBL-EBI requires
local data centre resources and Kao Data’s London One facility is situated a
short distance away along the M11. This provides easy access for the research
institute’s data centre engineers, ensuring continuity of in-house support, uptime
for data users and a significant saving in operating expenditure (OPEX). n
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