Business ISP Elite Expands Network to Cover 100000 London UK Postcodes

Business internet provider Elite claims to have recently lit more than 100,000 postcodes on their new Dark Fibre fed network, starting in London, for the United Kingdom’s “lowest cost Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet,” with an additional 60,000 to come in the next 4-6 months.

The increased network (on-net) footprint, which connects into existing exchanges, should also reduce the ISP’s dependency on 3rd party carriers while still maintaining and installing good quality Juniper infrastructure.

Elite has also laid out an ongoing exchange rollout strategy, which should expand their Ethernet connectivity further afield in Manchester and Birmingham, as well as other key metro areas across the UK.

Elite’s CEO, David Simmons, said:

“Our decision to expand our footprint nationwide, starting in London, is a result of understanding where the market is heading. With the increasing demand for high bandwidth connectivity, it became increasingly obvious that this could not be achieved using some of the 3rd party carriers.

We needed to be able to take control of the end-to-end delivery, avoiding backhaul capacity issues that limit the industry. By investing from the outset in the backhaul capacity, I am confident that Elite can deliver these high capacity services both now and in the future.”

Apparently Elite has opted to connect its on-net exchanges with Dark Fibre infrastructure (they don’t say via which supplier), combined with Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology. “While Dark Fibre is expensive, it offers the ISP the ability to instantly scale and access virtually limitless back-haul bandwidth at a moment’s notice, when required. Using Dark Fibre ensures the network is future-proofed and able to backhaul high-bandwidth client connections of 10Gbps, 100Gbps synchronous,” said Elite’s announcement.