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Matt Preston

Matt Preston

Mat Preston is Head of Presales (Head of Technical and Partner Success) at Virgin Media Business Wholesale, the UK wholesale connectivity provider.

Sep 23, 2026

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Yeah, you're
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right.
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So we serve all of those kind of customers in the wholesale area.
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Hyperscalers in particular, they're building now, making massive investments in data center infrastructure.
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And to connect those various DCs together, they're investing on a 20 to 30 year plan.
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So they really want duct, just raw duct or worst case, multiple and multiple hundreds of fibres between the data centres.
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The reason they want duct is to be able to future-proof their investment, future-proof their network, and be ready for new and emerging fibre technologies like hollow-core fibre and multi-core cables, multi-core fibre.

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