Oakwood Park Business Centre is the latest business park to be awarded a Smart Park plaque by NYnet Ltd. The Smart Parks project was set up by a partnership between NYnet and York & North Yorkshire Ltd, to demonstrate the economic advantage to the region of offering high-speed, next generation broadband to tenants on business parks, usually only found in city centres. To date the initiative has connected five business parks across the region with tenants taking advantage of the benefits of high speed broadband.
Alan Cryer stated “When I heard about the Smart Park initiative, I immediately seized the opportunity to bring high speed fibre optic broadband to Oakwood Park as I could see the enormous potential for the park and its tenants. With more and more businesses now relying on decent broadband connections to operate their daily business functions such as uploading and sharing large data files, utilising IP telephony and video conferencing services as well as the increase in use of Cloud services, I knew that Oakwood Park would need to be able to offer this type of connection to stay competitive with office spaces located in the centre of Harrogate.”
One of Oakwood Parks original tenants, Take That, rely heavily on a high speed broadband connection. Matthew Swift, Technical Manager for Take That said “Our entire business is online and therefore having access to a reliable internet connection is crucial. When we arrived at Oakwood Park we were happy with the initial bonded ADSL broadband the park could offer, however its speed restricted how we could use it. For example uploading and downloading large files would saturate the connection and take a considerable amount of time to complete; because of this such tasks had to be scheduled outside working hours. Now that we have access to a more robust and reliable high speed fibre optic connection these tasks can be run on demand without any impact on performance for other internet users. As our company expands and with it the demand on the connection, it’s also reassuring to know we can easily increase the bandwidth to grow with us.”
(Photo: Alan Cryer, Oakwood Park and Julie Barton, NYnet Ltd)