UK ISP Zen Internet Boost Core Network with 400Gbps Neos Networks Link
Connectivity provider Neos Networks, which runs one of the biggest 34,000km long and 400Gbps capable business fibre networks in the UK – spanning 550 exchanges, 90+ data centres and 600+ Points of Presence (PoPs), has boosted their partnership with broadband ISP Zen Internet by providing a 400Gbps upgrade between Manchester and London.
The “strategic upgrade” is said to be designed to ensure that Zen’s core network is ready for the future, while also supporting the UK’s growing bandwidth requirements as data centre investment, AI adoption, and full fibre broadband rollouts increase across the nation.
Beyond the Manchester to London link, Zen also continues to benefit from Neos’s upgraded core and exchange-backhaul services, which are said to be “critical for delivering ultrafast, resilient connectivity“. Together, these investments should support Zen’s ongoing efforts toward making quality fibre networks and services more widely available to UK businesses and consumers.
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David Bruce, CRO at Neos Networks, said:
“Our long-standing partnership with Zen Internet highlights the vital role of advanced fibre infrastructure when it comes to meeting the UK’s AI ambitions. Zen’s mission to become the country’s leading altnet aggregator is well aligned with the breadth, quality, and reliability of our backbone networks, and by working together, we’re ensuring an ecosystem that will ultimately benefit the UK as a whole.”
John Lyons, Technical Director at Zen Internet, said:
“In Neos we have a partner that not only delivers robust, high-capacity network solutions, but also real agility and collaboration, helping us deliver for our end users. Our collaboration is built on open communication, rapid provisioning, and shared engineering standards like equipment duplication, diverse routing, and true east-west redundancy. This approach means we can rely on Neos to deliver a network that consistently meets the high standards our customers expect”.
The upgrade may also help to complement Zen’s new Fibre Hub, which essentially aggregates access to a number of major and smaller alternative full fibre broadband networks for their partners (e.g. ISPs) to harness.
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I’m on a Manchester POP with Zen and haven’t had my full speed on Manchester-London links for a week or so now. Speed tests to servers in Manchester are just about my full 900Mbps speed, but testing to anything London or that goes via the Manchester-London link to get elsewhere is <500Mbps. Perhaps related?