SSE Enterprise Telecoms 100Gbps Network Adds 8 New Data Centres

Network operator SSE Enterprise Telecoms (SSEET), which manages a large fibre optic network that spans across the United Kingdom, has today added 8 “new” commercial datacentres to their 100Gbps capable network and upgraded 4 existing ones (total of 90).

The eight new data centres in England, Scotland and Wales include the ASK4 facility in Sheffield, AQL DC2 and DC5 in Leeds, SCC and Six Degrees in Birmingham, DataVita and Pulsant in Glasgow and Next Generation Data in Newport. The business has also upgraded Global Switch 2, Interxion Hanbury Street in London, LD5 in Slough and Kilburn House in Manchester to facilitate 100Gbps and 10Gbps Ethernet services as standard.

As usual the operator’s data centres will be connected to their growing national network of unbundled BT exchanges (giving them a total of 315+ PoPs) and some 20,000km of fibre.

Simon Willmott, Sector Director for Service Providers at SSEET, said:

“With digital transformation in full swing, everything businesses do today depends on connectivity. The issue for companies is that finding a local, business-ready connectivity solution they can plug in to is not always easy. By providing Optical and Ethernet services that span the UK, we can better enable local networks that need to be connected nationally, providing businesses with the robust, reliable, business-ready connectivity they require.”

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