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Developers at the cutting edge of digital technology can test their innovative applications, using South Yorkshire's groundbreaking £90 million superfast broadband network.
DRBSY, one of the first internet service providers to make use of the new Digital Region network being built across South Yorkshire, is offering to open up its Manvers-based data centre so that developers and service providers can carry out real-time tests with consumers.
The company says it is keen to identify interested parties, irrespective of whether they come from the public or private sector or are residential users.
Chief executive George Taylor said: "We have an extremely powerful capability, available exclusively to South Yorkshire, now we need to take advantage of it.
"Our objective is to experiment with innovative ways to help make internet access better, and faster for everyone.
"Our Rotherham data centre is ideally placed at the hub of the Digital Region to allow this collaborative action to occur."
About 30 per cent of South Yorkshire can already use the Digital Region network and the rest will be completed by 2012, giving companies and home users speeds of up to 40 mega bits a second (Mbps) and guaranteed speeds of 15 Mbps.
The network will put South Yorkshire streets ahead of the rest of the country, where the Digital Britain initiative now looks set to fail in its bid to give the whole of the UK access to the internet with minimum speeds of just 2 Mbps.
Some parts of South Yorkshire are already enjoying speeds 80 times faster than they used to and that opens the way to a whole range of new services.
George Taylor sees potential for streaming three-dimensional medical images from South Yorkshire to specialists in London, downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than 10 minutes, or sending live, interactive video to university students around the world.
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