Build. Connect. Accelerate: BT, Sitehop, and the future of UK digital infrastructure.

With the explosion of data, increased risk, and customers demanding trusted high-speed communications, there’s never been a better time to evolve the networks the UK needs. Secure, fast, future-proof and trusted. That’s why we’re proud to announce Sitehop’s involvement in a first-of-its-kind Proof of Concept (PoC) with BT at the Gemini test facility within Adastral Park, home to BT’s global R&D.

This collaboration represents more than a technical validation. It signals a shift, a growing belief that agile, sovereign innovators have a critical role to play in securing and accelerating the UK’s digital infrastructure with a foundation of engineering and innovation. Keeping people connected. At speed. Safely.

 

A New Model for Collaboration

The Gemini facility is a replica of BT’s live network, Europe’s largest and most advanced telecom test environment. Until now, access to Gemini has been limited to BT and its tier-one vendors. This week, Sitehop is the first SME to be invited in. Our mission is to demonstrate how our high-speed, low-power, post-quantum-ready encryption hardware and Network Management can meet BT’s performance, interoperability and security standards, and potentially qualify for Safe to Connect certification, BT’s highest trust benchmark.

For both sides, this trial is about more than devices. It is about testing an approach for the future where the UK’s network leaders and security innovators work together to create the kind of infrastructure the country, and the world, needs.

 

Built to Support BT’s Transformation

BT has made clear its strategic intent:

• To build the best, most trusted digital networks
• To connect customers so they thrive, as we grow, in a digital world.
• To accelerate modernisation to restore leadership in everything BT does

At Sitehop, our technology has been engineered to do exactly that.

Build: We remove legacy bottlenecks with ultra-low latency, FPGA-based encryption, delivering 100 Gbps performance with crypto agility built in.

Connect: Our plug-and-play devices support scalable deployments from the core to the edge, without sacrificing simplicity or cost-efficiency.

Accelerate: We enable faster, greener, more secure network growth. Sitehop uses just a tenth of the power of traditional solutions while delivering 10,000x lower latency than software-based alternatives.

These are not incremental improvements. They are exponential gains, the kind that can help us unlock the next generation of UK connectivity.

 

 

Why Telcos Choose Sitehop

Telecom networks are evolving rapidly, becoming more dynamic and security critical. Sitehop enables operators to keep pace and stay ahead.

• Zero trade-offs: Add robust, real-time encryption without sacrificing network performance, customer experience or cost efficiency.
• End-to-end flexibility: From 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps, classical encryption to post-quantum cryptography, Sitehop scales to fit any architecture.
• Easy to deploy and manage: Pre-integrated with existing network infrastructure, with cloud-ready, centralised management through Sitehop SAFEnms.
• Future-proof by design: Post-quantum ready, crypto agile, and engineered to support the demands of AI, 5G, edge and hyperscaler environments.
• Sustainable and efficient: A fraction of the energy consumption of software-based solutions, helping operators hit sustainability targets while boosting performance.
• Trusted and sovereign: Built entirely in the UK, Sitehop helps reduce supplier dependency while strengthening national and commercial security posture.

For telcos, this is a smarter way to secure networks.

 

Supporting a Stronger UK Ecosystem

Sitehop is a UK-born, UK-backed business with global vision. But our mission starts here, protecting the nation’s networks and data at the speed modern business, and we as consumers demand.

This Proof of Concept reflects a broader opportunity, to create space for mission-led, sovereign innovators within national infrastructure to give the UK a more competitive, more resilient and more sustainable digital foundation.

We are proud to be the first company to take part in this type of PoC. But we are even more excited about what happens next.

 

The Future Is Now

As BT says in its 2025 Strategic Report – the world is getting louder, faster and more complex. Networks are evolving. Threats are multiplying. Expectations are rising. And the UK has the chance to lead, by building trusted digital infrastructure backed by trusted innovation. That’s exactly where Sitehop thrives.

Sitehop. Engineered for speed. Built for the future.

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Or email info@sitehop.com

Categories: BT, Infrastructure, Security