The solution allows customers of Volta to be able to take advantage of Amazon Web Services directly from their IT infrastructure by using C4L’s private fibre network between Volta and AWS. This results in higher performance and greater security as AWS traffic routes directly rather than traversing a public Internet circuit, furthermore, bandwidth charges from AWS are lower on direct connections vs public links.
Services
We have pioneered many unique services since we launched back in 2000 and are proudly recognised as the UK’s largest privately owned fibre network provider for media and business customers. Our 100Gbps MPLS coreTX network covers all of central London, and key PoPs across the UK providing direct access to AWS as well as many other cloud and communications service providers including Azure.
SP Connect is available at all On-Net DC/PoPs on the coreTX network, this includes over 50 sites in the UK, with this number growing month on month. coreTX is entirely owned and operated by C4L utilising a privately owned fibre network between all sites, with equipment from leading providers such as Juniper Networks. This design allows coreTX to be extremely powerful, scalable and flexible – customers can activate SP Connect ports and services at 100Mbps, 1Gbps and up to 10Gbps – on request coreTX can even offer 40Gbps or 100Gbps where required.
Insight
Simon Mewett, CEO of C4L, comments: “By removing the need to physically deploy equipment in the same location as a Service Provider, coreTX removes commercial barriers and opens up a huge opportunity. Service Provider, (SP), Connect enables businesses, carriers, ISPs and content providers to realise the full potential of the coreTX network, by connecting directly to multiple service providers in any location, no matter where their equipment is physically located. This can be thought of in terms of using coreTX to deliver a ‘very long cable’ between your equipment located in a specific data centre, and connecting this with a service provider in another location. This provides you with all the benefits that you would gain if you were colocated in the same data centre as the provider.”
