SSE Enterprise Telecoms Hops on Nextgenacess Full Fibre UPDATE

Business connectivity provider SSE Enterprise Telecoms (SSEET) has signed a carrier agreement to make use of a new fibre optic link from Nextgenaccess (i.e. the 60km fibre route nearing completion between Bradley Stoke in Bristol and Newport in South Wales), which will enable the UK operator to connect with a high capacity data centre.

The new fibre link is being built with the support of £22m from the National Digital Infrastructure Fund (NDIF). SSEET plans to make use of this in order to help connect their own 12,000km UK-wide network to the NGD (Next Generation Data) data centre in Wales, which should support the rising demand for high capacity data.

Nextgenacccess says it has successfully built an independent network across the UK with over 100 Points of Presence (PoPs) in 10 different local authority areas, whereby small businesses or ISPs in otherwise underserved areas can connect directly to wholesale Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) broadband at speeds of up to 10Gbps.

Mark Weller, MD of Nextgenaccess, said:

“We very pleased to be meeting SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ requirements. Nextgenaccess is able to respond more quickly than most to the growing capacity demands of carriers and mobile operators by using our DPA / PIA powers and also specialist non-road fibre expertise. We can deploy full fibre infrastructure in strategic areas of the UK more easily and be more cost-effective than our competitors.”

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UPDATE 30th October 2019

We’ve got a clarification from Nextgenaccess. The fibre route concerned is in fact a 432 Fibre system with SSEET ordering multiple fibre pairs on this system.