A Business-only Network
We are serious about business, business-only networks and being the best in the business. So our founding philosophy was and remains simple; to build the premier network to support UK enterprises that are equally serious about their business.
Since our foundation (2002), we have adopted the policies and the leading edge engineering technologies that offer UK companies resilience, speed, control and versatility – the prerequisites for a non-stop compute network platform.
In order to achieve this, we adopted a number of critical network topology design factors and a strict network design objective: that our network topology is optimised for corporate clients only. Most importantly, we insisted that no consumer broadband traffic would disrupt our network’s resilience and have any impact on our clients’ business. This is a peerless and crucial differentiator to achieving the optimum up-time and low latencies required for your business.
Intelligent Network Topology
MPLS is a proven network architecture, but it lacks so many intelligent network design features and the versatility afforded by VPLS. VPLS powers up solutions where we can design networks with both layer 2 and layer 3 options. Hence, in January 2006, we were the first UK company to embrace and build a fully meshed VPLS network – allowing us to meet the stringent demands of the most advance and complex network designs.
Smart Wires
VPLS is now the cornerstone of our Smart Wires® approach to cloud computing – both private and public cloud applications where we can offer the important end-to-end SLAs to support your cloud applications. Our wealth of experience with VPLS is peerless and invaluable when it comes to meeting the design objectives for the most complex networks.
Excellent Credentials
Today, we have approximately 1,000 blue chip corporate clients and a balance sheet worthy of Dun & Bradstreet’s coveted No.1 credit status. We offer old fashioned quality of service sustained and supported by world-class leading edge network solutions.
Five important questions to ask when selecting an ICT service provider:
- Which country will I be supported from?
- How many broadband consumers does the service provider have on their network?
- Ask to see network performance statistics during school holidays (16 weeks per year)
- How many planned and unplanned network outages did the service provider have in each of the 4 quarters of 2010?
- Question about your business: If my network slows down or goes off the air for half a day, how much productivity or production will that cost your company?
