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“ At Aqua Comms , demands are roughly doubling every two years . There is a huge data flow now , many orders of magnitude bigger than they were 20 plus years ago .”

Established in 2011 , Aqua Comms seeks to monetise undersea assets by taking capacity from one shore to the other side of the ocean , delivering high quality services at lower costs . With 20 employees with up to 25 years ’ experience each , it presently houses up to 100 target customers , which are mostly global telecoms carriers . “ We don ’ t sell to banks or engineering firms . Neither do we go into the enterprise layer and break up the capacity on our layer into smaller pieces ,” says Bayliff . “ We sell big , high-capacity pipes between major interconnections sites either side of the Atlantic to people who go out into the metros and the communities and supply consumers and enterprises with telecoms services . “ We operate as a carrier ’ s carrier and sell , effectively , infrastructure as

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a service ,” he adds . “ Our investors are mostly infrastructure-grade and they are looking for a long-term return on the capital deployed , which is a pretty different world to 1999 , when it was mostly private equity making a play on what might happen in the high-tech market .”

Utilising new technologies proven by specialist construction companies , Bayliff ’ s extensive sector experience covers all aspects of the development of new , innovative solutions embedded

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