Network area
Next generation networking
You might think that our national, fibre optic network would be
a huge asset for UK business - and it is. No other company has a
Next Generation Network (NGN) like this for the robust, high
bandwidth telecommunications that modern organisations need. With
our Next Generation Network, you can cut costs by taking advantage
of voice and data convergence, quickly send large volumes of data
between sites or implement disaster recovery plans and secure
centralised data storage. Our end-to-end network
ownership, encompassing both core backbone and local loop
connections, enables us to offer you the highest possible
standards of security, resilience and quality of service.
As the UK’s leading cable provider, we've deployed
our own, advanced access network. This is the largest privately
built network in the UK with 330 Ethernet PoPs over our own
national footprint. Following a £13 billion investment in our
network, we provide Carrier Ethernet services over a fibre MPLS
core rather than over older technologies such as ATM or SONET. The
£13billion network is flexible, scaleable and is already built out
to more than 38,000 street cabinets across the UK.
As our fibre network is already deployed to the kerb it's closer
to you, making it easy and quick to extend fibre directly into your
premises. This means that we can deliver Ethernet directly over
fibre rather than relying on legacy technologies. As a result of
all this, our services are more flexible, provide better throughput
and deliver improved performance characteristics to our customers.
For instance, our MEF14 certified Ethernet
services can support the most stringent real time
communications applications including VOIP and HD quality
videoconferencing.
Interactive network map
Here's some facts about our network:
- 162 voice telephony switches across the UK
- 186,000km of local and metro network - the second largest
access network in the UK
- 330 ethernet nodes across the UK
- Three national digital head-ends
- Three public datacentres
- 10 Gbps core IP network, supporting all of our
IP
and internet services
- Over 130 IP service nodes for internet and IPVPN services
Network maps
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