New ultra-fast 10 GBPS 'London Data Centre Ring' ready for business
A new ultra high-speed fibre-optic ring interconnecting 10 commercial data centres in London is now available for use by ISPs and enterprises. The resource has been developed by Datahop Ltd. Datahop's 10 Gigabits/second ring network creates an ultra high-speed link that can be used for data transport between any of 10 of London's leading commercial data centres. Datahop also offers direct 'Layer 2 connectivity' to three Tier-1 carriers. The Datahop ring currently links 10 data centres, with two 10 Gigabit feeds into each. These are: Telehouse Europe's North, East and Metro sites, City Lifeline, Global Switch 1, Interxion, Telecity Harbour Exchange and Redbus Interhouse's Sovereign House, Meridian Gate and Harbour Exchange sites. Fast Ethernet ports, and a choice of optical fibre or copper Gigabit ports, are available at every site. Datahop offers a simple, affordable, tariff enabling businesses to reduce costs and - via Tier-1 connectivity - improve the availability, reliability and speed of their services. Fixed pricing saves businesses the time and inconvenience previously required in negotiating connectivity agreements with multiple suppliers. For high bandwidth users, Datahop's Layer 2 IP transit tariff to Tier-1 carriers is just £14 per Megabit/second of bandwidth. Additionally, companies can establish interlinks between any of the 10 data centres from only £75 per month per location, with free installation and cabling. This gives the capital's businesses a highly affordable way of implementing high-speed multi-site networks, not only for business development but also for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes. The Datahop network has been designed from the ground up to ensure the highest possible integrity for users and an advanced protection system is in place, ensuring that service is unaffected by a fibre break at any point. All of the data centre installations are designed for high reliability with separated fibre routes in to and out of data centres, redundant power supplies and the support of a 24/7 network monitoring operation.
•Date: 16th Feb 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity |
