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Yorkshire Forward Helps Connect The North – At Light-Speed!
02/12/2009
By Lea Pachta
Yorkshire Forward has today revealed details of the NorthernNet project which will revolutionise collaboration, innovation and interaction between the Digital and Creative industries across the North.
The Northern Way, which is part-funded by Yorkshire Forward, has invested £9.4m in linking physical premises across Yorkshire and Humber, the North East and North West via a high-speed telecommunication network of 100Mbs, which has the capacity to be upgraded to 1 Gbps. For the first time this will provide the north with a single high speed, secure, digital network that connects the region's creative and digital industry, sector and customers.
NorthernNet Members will share information and work together quickly, efficiently and in innovative ways. NorthernNet aims to link content creators, content deliverers and content buyers or commissioners across the North of England more directly than ever before.
The network allows enormous files to be sent between the premises at incredible speeds and it is available to businesses as a direct connection and, for the first time ever, as pay-as-you-go via NorthernNet Media Access Bureaus, positioned across the three Northern regions.
A further £3.4m of Northern Way funding has been secured for the NorthernNet Innovation and Collaboration Programme, which aims to encourage and develop a robust, competitive supply chain which will elevate the North to be a leading force in the European media industry. The project is managed and coordinated by Northwest Vision & Media from their base at Salford's creative industries hub MediaCityUK, working with delivery partners including Screen Yorkshire.
NorthernNet will also play a key role in the delivery of the BBC@North project which is designed to deliver greater creativity, collaboration and innovation for interactive services on CBBC and CBeebies to establish and strengthen the BBC's connections with the industry across the North of England.
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