Colt Upgrades Network to Provide Clients with Affordable Cloud Access

Colt Technology Services, a provider of on-demand network and communications services, has announced a major network upgrade whereby it will be providing its enterprise, carrier and web-centric customers with access to bandwidth levels of up to 100Gbps, while passing savings in the cost of delivery on to its customers.

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Expanded Network Capabilities

As part of its drive to deliver critical next-generation, high-bandwidth services and enable Cloud Cloud The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc The cloud or cloud computing helps provides data and applications that can be accessed from nearly any location in the world so long as a stable Internet connection exists. Categorized into three cloud services, cloud computing is segmented into Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In terms of trading, the versatility of the cloud service allows retail traders the ability to test out new trading strategies, backtest pre-existing conc Read this Term services and applications, Colt will be offering 1Gbps connections to its customers for the price of 100Mbps.

We want to help businesses face challenges by significantly upgrading their current connectivity and future proofing their business.

The offer covers all major Colt network services on a Pan-European basis, including data centre to data centre connectivity, cloud connectivity and wide area network (WAN) connectivity, and enables businesses of all sizes to future proof their connectivity.

Tom Regent, Chief Commercial Officer at Colt, commented: “Our core investments mean we are able to meet the ever increasing demands of our customers. The applications and services that businesses run on are moving into the cloud and the datacentre, and the employees who will be running these businesses in the future expect to be able to provision services when and where they need them, and close them down when no longer required, only paying for what they use."

He further explained: “Colt is committed to driving value for customers across Europe and Asia, providing competitive service flexibility and Scalability Scalability Scalability is a term that describes the constraints of a network via hash rates to meet increased demand. In the context of Bitcoin, scalability reflects the issue in which a limited rate can process transactions adequately.Blocks within the Bitcoin blockchain are limited in both size and frequency. The overall transaction processing capacity of the network is dictated by the average block creation time of 10 minutes as well as a block size limit of 1 megabyte. Consequently, this leads to pain Scalability is a term that describes the constraints of a network via hash rates to meet increased demand. In the context of Bitcoin, scalability reflects the issue in which a limited rate can process transactions adequately.Blocks within the Bitcoin blockchain are limited in both size and frequency. The overall transaction processing capacity of the network is dictated by the average block creation time of 10 minutes as well as a block size limit of 1 megabyte. Consequently, this leads to pain Read this Term. Connectivity is the enabler for cloud services and for how our customers deliver on their own customer experience. We want to help businesses face challenges by significantly upgrading their current connectivity and future proofing their business”.

Colt’s 100Gbps-enabled network capability gives Colt the flexibility and cost structure to substantially change the economics of its network offerings to the benefit of its customers.

Additional customer-oriented offers from Colt will also be made available in the future together with new on demand services as a direct result of its innovative software defined networking (SDN) roll-out and continued investment in its core network.