Initially you need to be present in either New England House (96 businesses currently are and they’re planning on building a second building next door to increase capacity), or at one of FastNet or FidoNet’s data centres, or connected to MetraNet’s wireless ring around Brighton or be in one of the buildings that are “adjacent” such as Vantage Point
There are musings about running fibre from the BDX to the business quarter .. but that depends on demand Currently the council are busy trying to bring more tech businesses to the "New England quarter" … there are a lot of “fused” businesses (whatever the hell that means) in the local area already and more tech businesses appearing daily (something like 100 startups all operating out of Wired Sussex alone - on top of the businesses in the NEH complex already) This is all fledgling stuff, but it seemed worthy so we jumped in on the ground floor … chances of profit are negligible at least in early days, but the BDX seems to have the right idea. Someone described it to me along the lines of “kids leave Uni/College in Brighton and have jobs to go to … they can either bugger off back up north and sign on up there, or they can try to make a go of something in Brighton / Hove / Worthing / etc where they’ve been living for the last 3-4 years anyway and maybe get somewhere” … the idea of the Digital Catapult and the BDX and Wired Sussex / et al is to try and see if we can help make that happen. My personal goal is to have enough excuses to move to Brighton and “semi retire” there … hell I’m nearly 45 … that’s over 100 in IT years :) (but I will still want decent connectivity when I retire :) Jon > On 25 Mar 2015, at 11:55, Christian de Larrinaga <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jon > > Given that you say the connectivity locally is poor and presumably tied > into the "circuit" model into an exchange fabric how do people reach the > IX in order to join it usefully? > > Christian > > > Jon Morby (FidoNet) wrote: >> The IX is secondary (and I don’t anticipate a fast start or a lot of >> traffic, especially not when comparing to other regional IXs). >> >> The DX is the primary driver to help kickstart tech businesses and give them >> a central focal point for innovation / etc … this is one small part of a >> much larger initiative >> >> The distinct lack of high speed internet has been a problem for a long time, >> the quality of life is there but the last mile is awful and not “fit for >> business” use >> >> FTTC is starting to appear but too little too late … hopefully the BDX will >> act as catalyst, mixed in with other initiatives, to help tech companies >> start and to grow whist not being dependent on London for the basics. >> >> I guess we’ll measure the success as to whether or not the BDX is still >> going in 3 years time as whilst it is a co-operative, it does have to be >> self funding so we need members to join either the IX or the DX or both >> >> >> >> J >> >> >>> On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:00, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Jon >>> Can't help but think that an IX is going to offer very limited benefit in >>> turning Brighton into a digital centre. They would be far better investing >>> the money into tech literacy efforts. How are they measuring success? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Neil >> >> > > -- > Christian de Larrinaga > FBCS, CITP, MCMA > ------------------------- > @ FirstHand > ------------------------- > +44 7989 386778 > [email protected] > -------------------------
