High Capacity Services
Point to point connectivity for high bandwidth and low latency
data transfer
Turn up the volume
Into transferring high volumes of data between sites anywhere in
the UK, swiftly and securely? Then our High Capacity Services let
you do just that - with total peace of mind. Put simply, the
service offers a point to point circuit connection utilising Wave
Division Multiplexing technology (WDM) to provide very low latency,
highly secure connectivity, able to support multiple applications
over one connection (well, put relatively simply, anyway). And
because it’s underpinned by our extensive fibre access footprint
into major UK data centres and telehouses, it’s especially suited
for connections into data centres.
Our High Capacity Services are fully managed and highly
secure, designed to support real-time and mission-critical data
with very low latency needs. Whether you need to connect two key
sites to support your storage and business continuity requirements
with multi-protocol support or extend your LAN environment across
the UK with one or more Gigabit Ethernet links, then High Capacity
Services are just the ticket for you.
Read on to see why.
Key features
- Point to point service that’s ideally suited for applications
and services that require deterministic, consistent low latency
connectivity and high levels of security.
- Supports multiple protocols to suit your requirements,
including Data Storage, LAN/WAN connectivity and video transmission
e.g. Digital Video Broadcast standards (DVB).
- Full range of diversity options to suit your required ‘up-time’
needs.
Leave it to us
We offer carrier-class reliability coupled with a choice of
resilience options to enable you to meet your specific ‘up-time’
requirements driven by your business-critical communication needs.
High Capacity Services are fully proactively managed and maintained
by us, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, leaving you to concentrate
on your core business.
The product is available in two forms:
National High Capacity Services
These services are underpinned by our Next Generation national
optical network, to enable the cost efficient implementation of
complex high bandwidth connectivity. Available at speeds of 270mb
up to 10Gb, National High Capacity Services can be deployed to suit
your needs; one or more circuits can be provisioned between sites,
various levels of protection can be employed and multi-protocol
sub-rate services can be supported.
Dedicated High Capacity Services
These services are deployed over a dedicated fibre
infrastructure, usually within a Metropolitan or Regional area.
Each solution is individually designed and built to support your
specific needs, ranging from complex resilient ring topologies to
simple point to point links. These services can be provisioned to
offer varying levels of protection in order to support
mission-critical data requirements. Dedicated High Capacity
Services enable secure and reliable transfer of disaster recovery
and business continuity data. What’s more, its built-in scalability
spreads the cost effectiveness beyond the initial deployment over a
short period of time.
It’s time to increase the volume.
Got a question? Call us on
0800 953 0180
Features & benefits
High Capacity Services
Point to point connectivity for high bandwidth and low latency
data transfer
Now, let’s point you at these great features and benefits.
Features
- Point-to-point service - Ideally suited for
applications and services requiring low latency, deterministic
connectivity and high levels of security.
- Supporting multi-protocol connectivity - to
suit your customer requirements, including storage, LAN/WAN
connectivity and video.
- Supported by a stringent Service Level Agreement
(SLA) - and backed by service credits. If we make a
mistake, we'll put things right.
- Extensive access - to major UK data centres,
telehouses and BT exchanges.
- Full range of diversity options - to ensure
that your overall delivery schedules are met.
- Project led service delivery - to ensure that
your overall delivery schedules are met.
- Resilience options to meet “up-time” needs -
if connectivity uptime is critical to your business, then we’ve
resilience options that can significantly improve your statistics
and mitigate your business risk. Our standard High Capacity
Services will guarantee 99.8% availability, but if you need to
further reduce risk, we can deploy resilience options to take you
to an incredible 99.99% annual availability. These figures are
backed by a comprehensive set of service credit payment
commitments.
These services are inherently scalable, and therefore support
future growth requirements and we will even provide a guaranteed
future upgrade price for subsequent services when you install your
first service with us.
Benefits
- Reducing your Capital outlay - the hardware
and fibre infrastructure is owned and maintained by us and provided
to you as a managed service with a simple, low monthly, quarterly
or yearly rental charge, therefore considerably lowering your
capital costs.
- Keeping pace with technology - keeping up to
date on the technology front is crucial in any business. As we
retain ownership of the network equipment and infrastructure, the
question of obsolescence is no longer a worry for you. Unlike a
self-purchased solution, if your technology refresh necessitates
changes to the equipment or infrastructure capacity, your capital
expenditure is minimised.
- Better use of your time and resource - we
manage and maintain High Capacity Services for you - which means
your IT people can focus on your business.
- Security - all customer ports are physically
separate, therefore High Capacity Services are incapable of being
compromised through packet mis-routing.
- Scalability - bandwidth can be adjusted as
your needs change; initial deployment options will dictate the
ultimate capability of the service. This allows you to set your own
balance between cost versus scalability.
- Network Management & Support - we work to
a standard Service Level Agreement which forms part of our
agreement with you. We’re responsible for the end to end ownership
and management of your High Capacity Services which includes the
maintenance, configuration and monitoring of the service and its
components. We proactively monitor alarms on the network 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year.
We’ve made high capacity highly desirable.
Got a question? Call us on
0800 953 0180
Detailed Info
High Capacity Services
Point to point connectivity for high bandwidth and low latency
data transfer
All you need to know
Our High Capacity Service is based upon Wave Division
Multiplexing (WDM) technology. The National variant uses our
National Optical Core & Access Networks and extensive fibre
footprint to enable you to connect your sites within the UK. The
Dedicated variant is based upon our extensive fibre footprint,
which will facilitate highly efficient Data Centre Interconnects.
Both enabling ultra low latency Wide Area Network (WAN) and Storage
Area Network (SAN); at speeds of 1 Gigabit up to 10 Gigabits.
Details of current service presentation options available are as
follows:
|
Service
|
Bandwidth
|
|
Ethernet Services
|
|
|
10GE LAN Phy
|
10.3125 Gb
|
|
10GE WAN Phy
|
9.9532 Gb
|
|
1GE
|
1.25 Gb
|
| |
|
|
SDH Services
|
|
|
STM-64
|
9.9532 Gb
|
|
STM-16
|
2.488 Gb
|
| |
|
|
Storage area Networking
|
|
|
10G FC*
|
10.52 Gb
|
|
FC400
|
4.24 Gb
|
|
FC200
|
2.125 Gb
|
|
FC100
|
1.062 Gb
|
| |
|
|
Video connectivity
|
|
|
DVB-SDI/ATI
|
270mb
|
|
DVB-SDI HD
|
1.485 Gb
|
* Available on Dedicated High Capacity Services only.
High Capacity Services Network Terminating units are rack
mounted, details of size and generic power consumption are as
follows:
|
Chassis type
|
Size
|
Operating temperatures
|
Power consumption
|
|
Small
|
H=1U
|
5°C to 40°C max
|
Max 50W
|
|
Medium
|
H=3U
|
5°C to 40°C max
|
Max 160W
|
|
Large
|
H=10U
|
5°C to 40°C max
|
Max 600W
|
All chassis support the following power supplies:
DC: -40.5 to -57.5 V
AC: 100 - 240 VAC, 47 - 63Hz (via external AC/DC converters)
Service Level Agreements
- 24x7x365 support hours
- Delivery is project based
- Six-hour fix
- Backed with SLAs for:
- Failure to provide within agreed timescale.
- Failure to fix in agreed time.
- Service availability not met.
Got a question? Call us on
0800 953 0180
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