who we are

Rushmere is a British start up passionate about affordable Internet for all, with truly high speeds and top level security. Our BT proven and patented optical processors virtualize last mile installed telecoms fibre to bring faster internet speeds to customers.

Last mile fibre: the feeder that connects the Internet with users either at their home/office or while on the move (mobile cell towers)

Virtualization: the split of one physical feeder into up to 1,000 separate virtual fibres, all carrying many times the bandwidth (‘fibre cloud’)

FiaaS: the use by ISPs of a carrier’s fibre cloud to supply extra bandwidth (and other premium services) to customers (Fibre-infrastructure-as-a-Service)

Carlo Seidel

Jim Harrison

Experience:

Entrepreneur/investor: founder of Dominion Petroleum sold to Ophir Energy for $190 million)

Loves new technologies, seeing how they change people’s lives for the better

Previously in software development, real estate, consumer products/marketing consultancy

Holds a BA, MA in PPE from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Harvard Business School

Interests:

Running, X-country skiing

light transmission units set fibre internet speeds

Fibre is a passive conduit that carries light. Light encodes data on fibre like electrons encode data on copper wires (eg computers). The faster the light turns on/off the higher the bandwidth. The light is generated by the transmission equipment.

last mile fibre virtualization adds transmission units

A last mile passive optical network (PON) is a data centre switch directing data to destinations at a preset bandwidth on the fibre via the transmission equipment, and with no extra electronics added.

more transmission units mean more bandwidth

To-date each fibre is paired with a single PON. Rushmere’s equipment overlays multiple extra PONs onto the same fibre (‘virtualization’) to increase total bandwidth delivered per fibre (Fibre-infrastructure-as-a-Service).

FiaaS processor virtualizes last mile fibre