Posted: 23rd May, 2006 By: MarkJ
UK ISP Pipex is hoping to make major enhancements to broadband Internet connectivity by introducing two new 10Gbps Ethernet ports into the London Internet Exchange (LINX):
The performance-boosting connections enable Pipex to route traffic to other service providers more quickly and cost-effectively through the London-based Internet hub, reinforcing its capabilities to offer customers reliable, high performance Internet services.
As a longstanding member of LINX one of the world's largest neutral peering points this increased capacity will enable Pipex to reduce its costs for carrying traffic and ensure that services are always available for customers. Pipex has made this investment due to more businesses and home-users joining its services and a greater demand for bandwidth from customers.
Pipex recently came top of the five largest ADSL suppliers in a nation-wide customer satisfaction survey carried out by uSwitch.com and YouGov. 80 per cent of Pipex customers were satisfied with their speed/usage, while 89 per cent were satisfied with the quality of the Pipex connection.
Pipex sees the move as playing an important part in building up its triple play (voice, data and television) services for the future.