Interoute
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Website | http://www.interoute.com |
Interoute is a broadband network covering the majority of the European Union, from London to Warsaw, from Stockholm to Sicily, with transatlantic capacity linked to North America's major telecoms hub. The company is part of Europe's Digital Supply Chain, serving more than 14,000 customers and supporting €1 billion of eCommerce transactions daily through its data centres alone.
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[edit] Key Features
- Wholly owned Network down to the ducts
- 30,000+ cable km
- 48 pairs
- 80 lambda
- 10 Gbit/s
- 200 PoPs
- 19 countries
- 3-12 ducts
- 100,000+ m² of hosting space
[edit] About
Interoute's network is the largest in Europe today. Products and services include bandwidth, virtual private networks, high speed internet access and transit, managed hosting, communications services and media streaming. Interoute's fibre optic network consists of twelve rings connecting 61 cities in 19 countries across 30,000+ route kilometres of lit fibre and has the capacity to carry a petabit (a billion megabits per second) of traffic. Interoute also built metropolitan area networks (MANs) in 21 major European centres of business with further cities planned during 2006. A privately held company, Interoute is owned by a number of internationally based shareholders, the largest and major shareholder being the Sandoz Family Foundation, one of the world's largest private family foundations.
[edit] Customer Base
Interoute's expertise lies in providing highly secure network services for companies who span across a large European footprint. Interoute’s 14,000 plus customers include governments, Fortune 500 firms and a broad range of mid-tier corporations heavily dependent on secure networks.
- Interesting note: In 2002 an Algerian earthquake knocked out bandwidth connectivity to Greece. Interoute restored connectivity in 24 hours and was thus granted permission to power the 2004 Athens Olympics
[edit] Voice Services
James Kinsella talks to CNBC News about the launch of iSip April 4th, 2006
Interoute operates an IP-enabled voice network based on soft-switch technology that provides services to the wholesale and corporate markets. The platform is access independent, supporting traditional TDM as well as Voice over IP (VoIP), interconnect and translation.
Customers are able to interconnect securely with public and private VoIP providers; substitute or complement existing bilateral agreements with new TDM or VoIP interconnects; and trade with the other carriers and service providers.
- iSip
Interoute’s corporate Voice service is iSip. It’s the first genuinely secure corporate VoIP service for businesses. The slogan for iSip is "Skype without the Skypemares". The idea being that it is a VoIP system free of the staggering security concerns associated with Skype (even when working remotely).The benefit of VoIP is that it offers free internet calls, free national fixed line calls and radically reduced charges for mobile calls and international calls.
[edit] Managed Hosting Services
Interoute acquired PSINet Europe in 2005 and with that acquisition added Managed Hosting services to its portfolio. Currently Interoute operates data centres in 7 cities across Europe managing business critical systems for corporate customers. Early 2007 a Virtual Hosting service was launched providing local redudancy and optional geographic failover to customers.
