Business communications
Voice services and communications platforms could help an organisation connect its people, locations and customers.
Networks & Communications
Connections people and systems depend on.
Communications connect households, businesses and machines. Our focus spans the networks that carry information, the services people use and the technology needed to operate them.
The opportunity
Connections that hold up in use.
A connection must remain useful as demand, locations and conditions change. Operators need to understand the path information takes, make changes safely and restore service when problems arise.
Our interest spans the networks themselves, the communications services people use and the tools operators need to run them. We look for needs that can support a useful service over time, with clear responsibility for its performance.
Our focus
Within this field.
Areas that guide where we look
for opportunities to build businesses.
Access and connectivity
Internet access, broadband, fixed and mobile connectivity.
Network infrastructure
Fibre, wireless, satellite connectivity and private networks.
Wholesale and interconnection
Capacity, transit, peering and internet exchanges.
Voice and messaging
Voice services, VoIP, SIP and messaging platforms.
Communications platforms
Business communications, collaboration infrastructure and communications APIs.
Connected operations
IoT connectivity, network equipment, management and automation.
Illustrative applications
How it could be used.
Examples of possible applications
of this field.
Conceptual illustration
Connections that reach further.
Access and transport networks connect people, places and devices to services. Interconnection allows traffic to reach other networks when needed; some connections stay within a network.
People, places & devices
Homes, workplaces and connected equipment.
Access & transport
Fixed and wireless networks carry communications.
Other networks
Reached through peering or transit. Peering may be direct or through an internet exchange.
Services over the network
Internet access, voice, messaging and business communications.
Lines show connections, with communications travelling in both directions.
Internet interconnection
Exchange, peering and transit services could connect networks, with tools to help operators understand traffic paths and manage changes.
Connected equipment
Connectivity and management tools could keep distributed devices reachable and make faults easier to investigate.
Enabling connected life
How the fields work together.
Computing supports communications services. Connected devices exchange information through them. Power availability affects their reliability.