Vorboss

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Vorboss
Company type Private
Industry Telecommunications, ISP, wired communication
Founded2006
Headquarters London, England, UK
Area served
 United Kingdom
Key people
John Browett (Chairman) [1]
Timothy Creswick (CEO)
James Fredrickson (Chief Corporate Affairs Officer)
David Gilbey(CFO) [2] [3]
Rikshita Khela (CPO) [4]
Rhod Morgan (COO)
Richard Price (CSO)
Aaron Rice (CIO) [5]
AUM Increase2.svg£2,100,000 (2020)
Number of employees
350 [6]  (2022)
Parent Fern Trading Group Ltd
Website vorboss.com

Vorboss is a company owned by Fern Trading Ltd, headquartered in Broadgate, [7] London, England. [8] The company provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity to business customers. [9] [10] It was established in 2006 by Tim Creswick.

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History

Vorboss was founded in 2006 [11] by Tim Creswick as a software consultancy and managed service provider. [8] [12] In 2019, Ofcom lifted BT Group's Openreach infrastructure use constraints, allowing competition network builders to deploy fiber lines in Openreach ducts for enterprise users. The same year, Vorboss began building a fiber network in London's business district. The company spent £1m on fiber deployment to build a network without road excavation.. [13] [6]

In November 2020, Vorboss was acquired by Fern Trading Group (Fern Fibre Limited) for an undisclosed sum. [14] Vorboss was added to Fern's portfolio of UK broadband network builders, securing £250m in funding for the London deployment. [13] [6]

From 2020 to 2023, Vorboss invested over £300 million in a full-fibre network to provide enterprises with fiber infrastructure. [15] The company installed 500 km [16] of 800 fiber optic cables [6] in Central London with 10 to 100 Gbit/s speeds that connected directly to premises (FTTP) instead of using a copper-and-cabinet intermediary. [12] In 2021, Vorboss partnered with The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) to launch a training academy. [17] [18]

In 2022, Vorboss established a 100 Gbit/s connection at London's 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper, [19] [20] one of the UK's tallest office buildings. [21] The same year, it expanded its datacenters in Interxion's London headquarters [22] and opened its new headquarters at Broadwalk House, Broadgate. [23]

In 2023, Vorboss' CEO Tim Creswick became the chair of the ITP board of directors. [17] The same year, the company hired Octopus Group Holdings board member John Browett as a new chairman, who also entered the board of Fern Trading Group. [1]

Operations

Vorboss offers business customers in London access to 10 Gbit/s [24] dedicated fibre connectivity with the capacity to increase to 100 Gbit/s. [25] The company has deployed 500 km of fibre-optic cables, connecting 1,500 subterranean "telecom chambers" to datacenters and customer locations in the duct network. Power is only provided to the enterprise's customer premises equipment (CPE) and routers at 26 Vorboss datacenters. There are no overground street cabinets and cable line power. [6]

The company has two vendors for each technical product need. It partners with Juniper Networks for routing platforms and RAD for fiber termination CPE units. [6]

Around 40% of Vorboss field technicians are female. [4] [26] [27] [28] The organisation is vertically integrated, [29] owing its infrastructure, service and software systems end-to-end. [30] [25] [31]

Electric Cargo Bicycle

In 2024, Vorboss developed an electric cargo bicycle with a secure cargo area and engineer workspace. [10] [32] The bike is equipped to splice fibre, [33] [34] adjusting the company's fleet operation to London's Clean Air Zone. [35] The bike is pedal-powered and pavement-mountable, containing all equipment and instruments required for network servicing. The company aligns operations with the city's green policies. [35]

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