Over the last number of weeks more than 70 km of fibre optic cable has been installed! Now individual sections of the cable have to be spliced together, creating one uninterrupted glass channel.

That magic happens inside this trailer, where a technician connects the 96 individual fibres and fuses them together.

A computer checks each connection is sound and then the fibres are placed in a series of trays and moved to in-ground connection boxes, ready for action.