Colt, a leading provider of high bandwidth services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs, Thursday announced the expansion of its SDN-enabled On Demand portfolio by introducing a new Ethernet on Demand Service.
Colt said that the Ethernet on Demand service supports dynamic real-time ordering, provisioning and flexing of high bandwidth connectivity between locations connected to the Colt IQ Network. This includes more than 5,000 enterprise buildings and 200 Data Centres that are currently eligible across 11 countries in Europe, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK.
Colt also plans to further expand its reach to additional locations during 2017, including Asia. The new service allows businesses located in Colt-connected enterprise buildings to intelligently meet variable additional demands for high-bandwidth applications, such as cloud connectivity, disaster recovery or real-time data backup.
Colt’s On Demand Portfolio, which allows enterprises to consume Ethernet connectivity services on the Colt IQ Network in real-time via an intelligent online customer portal, bypasses the legacy service delivery processes. It also gives customers full control and the ability to flex bandwidth requirements up and down instantaneously, using the portal. The on-demand flexibility also extends to pricing, giving customers the option to choose per-hour pricing plans, as well as more traditional fixed term contract durations.
Rajiv Datta, CTO, Colt
Enterprises with increasingly demanding network requirements can benefit from near real-time service provisioning and dynamic bandwidth flexing to cope with their immediate business needs. Colt has invested significantly in on demand connectivity infrastructure, leaving organisations free to concentrate on their core business whilst gaining visibility, agility and flexibility.
