Archive for August, 2009

Additional COTS kick-off meeting in Hull

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Due to the high levels of interest in the COTS Project, we have decided to run an additional kick-off meeting.
This meeting, in Hull on 03 September, will provide those stakeholders that were unable to participate at the first meeting an opportunity to give their views on COTS. It will also be possible to participate remotely: [...]

The COTS Project launch

Friday, August 7th, 2009

We recently launched the COTS Project, short-hand for Commercial, Operational and Technical Standards for Independent Local Open Access Networks.
The objective of the project is:
“to work with representatives of independent local and community–led broadband projects, national network operators and major ISPs to develop a low cost standardised approach to enable a wide range of service providers [...]