The region’s largest independent provider of ultrafast Internet services across the UK has launched a broadband broadside in its support of landlords who are trying to make their high-tech tenants more globally competitive.
WarwickNet has delivered high speed broadband to Monkspath, a 42-warehouse industrial park spread across 375,000 sq ft near Shirley, Solihull, which is the home of a mixed range of firms, including component and distribution businesses serving the motor industry.
The company has praised landlord Cornerstone for its forward thinking because most business parks lag behind domestic Internet speeds.
The landlord had understood the park’s symbiotic relationship with the automotive industry, a factor that served as a major driver for the provision of superfast broadband which is up to eight-times the speed of conventional Internet.
Graham Barker of Cornerstone said: “So many businesses today rely upon superfast connectivity to stay in touch and keep on top of their game. For example, component companies serving world leaders like Jaguar Land Rover require state of the art CAD design technology in order to compete for contracts on the world stage. We are delighted we can now offer this to tenants at Monkspath in response to their needs.
“Solihull has a symbiotic relationship with the motor industry. Jaguar Land Rover is a major employer in the town and it is supported by a hierarchy of tier one and tier two suppliers who are all looking to maintain that relationship and ultra fast Internet connectivity is a way of providing assistance,” he added.
But, this is the exception rather than the rule argues WarwickNet managing director Ben King, who said: “We hear daily anecdotes from tenants across the region that they often have to drive home to download large files on their domestic PCs – because they have faster broadband there – and then return to the office – it’s a scandal.
“So we are delighted to work with visionary landlords who recognise the pain of their tenants in not being able to fairly compete on a level playing field because the traditional technology lets them down.
“Sadly, there are too many parks that will remain forgotten backwaters who need a heroic approach to solve the problems. Where this has happened, we have generated bundles of orders and we have several more in the pipeline from Leamington Spa to Birmingham and North Coventry,” he said.
WarwickNet have helped businesses gain a global competitive foothold and the company is now looking at nearby Cranmore Business Park, also located in the so-called M42 ‘golden triangle’, to complement its work at Monkspath and with up to 30 businesses on Blythe Valley business park, which already have superfast connectivity from WarwickNet.
Jon Earnshaw, chief operating officer of WarwickNet, said: “We have a purpose-built Point of Presence hub on site with fully-diverse fibre links into our Midland Gigabit core. We have several more parks in the pipeline where tenant companies are desperate for business-grade broadband, high speed leased lines and multi-site MPLS networks.”
