
Matt Preston
Mat Preston is Head of Presales (Head of Technical and Partner Success) at Virgin Media Business Wholesale, the UK wholesale connectivity provider.
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Sep 23, 2026
The Great British Build-Out: What comes next?
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Matt PrestonGUEST
Hyperscalers in particular, they're building now, making massive investments in data center infrastructure.

Matt PrestonGUEST
And to connect those various DCs together, they're investing on a 20 to 30 year plan.

Matt PrestonGUEST
So they really want duct, just raw duct or worst case, multiple and multiple hundreds of fibres between the data centres.

Matt PrestonGUEST
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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