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We had set ourselves a challenging mission to accomplish.

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Provide superfast broadband to one of the most remote-rural locations in England.

Spurn Point, located where land, river and sea meet (Yorkshire, Humber and North respectively), where RNLI Humber crew and their families are permanently based, is unsurprisingly an ADSL Notspot.

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Here is the speedtest.net result from the RNLI Crew Facilities using the NextGenUs NGA FiWi Connection

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Said Sean Royce, Commercial & Finance Director, Kingston Communications, on news of the service going live for RNLI Humber:

“Wow!

Those boys deserve that and KC are proud and delighted we could help.

Looks like it proves we can deliver Next Generation Access!

Hopefully more will benefit from our combined efforts.”

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Said Dave “Spanish” Steenvoorden, Cox RNLI Humber:

“It’s Brill!”

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“Together We Are The Network” is the ethos of the wider NextGenUs NGA Testbed of which the RNLI Humber deliverables of superfast broadband form an important part.

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Thanks once again to our partners and project co-sponsors, some anonymous and others named:

• Emtelle
• AFL Telecommunications, a Fujikura business
• Kell Systems
• Kingston Communications
• Steve Medcalf Ltd
• Pharos Films
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
• Screwfix
• AND the RNLI Humber Crew & kids!!

More news on the Testbed and other developments here at the NextGenUs blog.

RNLI Humber NextGenUs FttH Groundworks completed.

Next phase – Fibre Blowing then Active Equipment Installation then Live.

A key milestone in this NextGenUs “Together We Are The Network” Charity Project, delivered by FibreStream and its partners:

• Emtelle
• AFL Telecommunications, a Fujikura business
• LG Nortel
• Kell Systems
• Steve Medcalf Ltd
• Pharos Films
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
• Screwfix
• AND the RNLI Humber Crew & kids!!

Here’s our Video of the Day

Here’s our Vision of Future-Proof FttH

What the Yorkshire Post has to say here and here and for a wider perspective here

What the Hull Daily Mail has to show here

The FttH groundworks for RNLI Humber were completed by the lifeboat crew literally digging their own fibre today, with the volunteer cooperation of FibreStream, Emtelle, Steve Medcalf Builders and Pharos Films

- special thanks to ScrewFix for providing the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).

More to follow and here’s a taster.

Fibre Nears the Home

The next step towards next gen access is to bury the microducts and for that FibreStream is Shouting Out for RNLI.

For the lifeboat crew and their families to go out “on a shout” means the RNLI crew risking life and limb to save others in trouble at sea

Here’s your chance to help them in return

Fibrestream is leading the project to provide the latest FttH (Fibre to theHome) Next Generation of ultrafast broadband (100Mbps symmetric to start off with)  in partnership with Emtelle, AFL Telecommunications, LG Nortel, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Steve Medcalf Builders.

The fibre optic cables and ducting have been delivered to site and the next step is to bury them!

Which is where people who want to support RNLI come in – This is a shout to come down to Spurn, pick up a shovel and help the crew to dig their own fibre.

FttH is the future for HDTV, voice and ultrafast broadband and uses a Fibre optic cable all the way to each home doing away with the copper phone wires of old.

A whole raft of other advanced services like eHealthcare, TeleMedicine, Safe Access to the internet for school kids are all made possible by FibreStream Next Generation Access (NGA)

Fibrestream is proud to bring FttH to the crew and families of RNLI Humber, located in one of the most remote-rural parts of the country.

So c’mon if you want to lend a hand then please get in touch and together we can fix a day and get digging!

Email address – RNLIHUMBER at fibrestream.co.uk
Telephone – 01482 778 554 and leave your contact details

Design in partnership with Emtelle.

Typical Floor Plan Layout

Typical MDU Elevation

Typical MicroDucting Distribution

Objective: To identify the deficiencies of the RNLI’s existing connectivity then design and deliver together a fit-for-21st Century purpose Next Gen Access result that supports the work of the crew and helps enrich the lives of their families too.

More on this subject as deployment proceeds and, most importantly, as the Crew and Families learn by using the transformational benefits of FiWi and FttH.