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Connectus is investing an additional £500,000 at Doncaster Airport Business Park, which will allow the company to expand its work in and around the site’s Innovation Centre that includes 140 business units for start-ups and expanding businesses.
The cash-injection comes after the Government announced it will invest £30m into the newly reopened Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
Roy Shelton, the CEO of Connectus, said a key focus of the investment would be to create additional technical solutions designed to safeguard the airport in event of a Heathrow-style outage.
Shelton explained: “This new investment underlines our commitment to provide better connectivity services to Doncaster Airport Business Park and the businesses based there.
“Connectus has already invested £1m over several years at the business park, which has helped to ensure all businesses on the park can enjoy access to our gigabit full fibre network – this new investment will help us go further.”
The £500,000 of investment pledged by Connectus, which has offices in Doncaster, Salford and Grimsby, will focus on creating two diverse links for increased connectivity to the site to ensure that it remains live if there is an outage at one telecoms exchange; developing new engineering roles to manage and support an increased demand for services.
It will also involve rolling out additional renewable and alternative power solutions to further mitigate the risks of a replay of the Heathrow incident, feared to have unfolded due to an over-reliance on one supplier, alongside building new AI based diagnostics and tooling via its partner Kaysea, and investing in more community outreach including continued support to Doncaster Knights Rugby Union and other grassroots sports clubs.
