nLighten

nLighten operates a growing network of carrier-neutral edge data centres across the UK, designed to bring compute, storage and connectivity closer to end users.

Over the past 18 months, we’ve partnered to strengthen that edge, investing in national backhaul and high-capacity connectivity that makes it easier for customers to move in, scale up and stay resilient.

nLighten had a strong proposition: regional edge data centres designed for modern, latency sensitive workloads such as cloud services, real-time applications and AI. But they understood a critical truth: customers won’t move unless connectivity is simple, resilient and fast to deliver. 

Their ambition was straightforward to describe but complex to deliver:
Make changing data centre provider feel easy.

That meant removing technical friction, reducing delivery delays and ensuring backhaul, resilience and cloud access would simply work — whether customers needed 10G today or 100G tomorrow.

To achieve this, nLighten needed a partner with national scale, strong engineering capability and a proven track record of delivering complex builds first time.

After more than a year of close collaboration, we committed to a significant infrastructure investment across all nLighten UK data centres. Each site is being made 400G capable, with 10G and 100G services delivered faster and at more competitive price points through pre provisioned capacity enabled by Project Spark.

Customers integrating or interconnecting at nLighten sites gain direct access to our national network, built-in diversity and cloud-ready resilience, allowing them to backhaul traffic nationally or connect directly to cloud services without complex bespoke builds.

Delivery is supported by shared governance, clear milestone visibility and a shared service wrap to keep deployment predictable and on track.