| Type | Limited Company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Genre | Company Profile |
| Founded | 1996[1] |
| Founder(s) | Steve Lalonde |
| Headquarters | Telford, UK |
| Area served | UK, Europe, Worldwide |
| Key people | Jason Tsai (President)[2] Steve Lalonde (Chief Technical Officer)[2] |
| Products | Wholesale Internet Services |
| Services | ADSL2+ Broadband Leased Line EFM Colocation IP VPN Domains Transit VoIP SIP Trunking Marketing Numbers Non Geographical Numbers FTTC |
| Revenue | 2009 27.2 million GBP |
| Owner(s) | Jason Tsai |
| Employees | 82 (June 2011) |
| Parent | Entagroup |
| Divisions | Voice Data |
| Website | www.enta.net |
Entanet International is a British Wholesale ISP and is a member of the Internet Service Providers Association [3]
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Entanet is formed as a limited company in November after running as a separate business unit with Enta Technologies since February.
Launches a 'Virtual Pipe' solution for ISP's wanting to buy IPStream capacity without having to buy a full central from BT Wholesale[4]
Expands into Europe with PoPs in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Paris. Joins AMS-IX,[5] SFINX [6] and De-CIX.[7]
All broadband customers on 'MAX' products are upgraded from 'up to 2Mbit/s' to 'up to 8Mbit/s' [8]
Entanet begins to sponsor Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club [9]
Entanet is selected to take part in the test of BT's 21st Century Network, making it the only non-BT company taking part in the trial.[10]
Entanet launches a business Ethernet First Mile product in the West Midlands using LLU copper lines from Openreach [11]
Entanet launches ADSL2+ services based on BT's 21st Century Network on 15 July. Though to date this is only available via the following areas. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Cardiff, Bristol ,Preston, London North West. The remaining eleven are scheduled to be live September 2008.[12]
On 3rd June, as Entagroup celebrates its twentieth year in business, its founder and CEO, Jason Tsai has been recognised for his innovation and commitment to the IT channel by being awarded the title of Channel Entrepreneur of the Year by the Comms Business Awards.[13]
Entanet launches synergi[14]partner portal website on 12th April. It provides resellers with account management and ordering, reporting processes and encourages knowledge sharing between partners and the company itself.[15]
Nominated for three separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any [16]
Wins CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.[17]
Nominated for five separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any. Sponsored the 'Best Portal' award. [18]
Retains CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.[19]
Nominated for five separate ISPA awards. [20] - Wins Best Consumer Email [21] and Best Internet Telephony[21]
Finalist for Specialist Vendor of the Year – CRN Channel Awards 2008. [22]
Ranked 61st in the Sunday Times Techtrack 100 Ranked 50th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50
Ranked 61st in the Sunday Times Techtrack 100
Listed in the Tech Media Invest Top 100
Ranked 435th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA
Finalist in the CRN Channel Awards 2009, Comms National Awards 2009 and category of Best Internet Telephony in the 2009 ISPA Awards.
Ranked 78th in the Real Business Hot 100 [23]
Ranked 89th in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100
Entanet’s founder, Jason Tsai, was named as the Comms Business Awards ‘Channel Entrepreneur of the Year’.
Finalist in the CRN Channel Awards ‘Specialist Vendor of the Year’, Comms National Awards ‘Internet Service Provider of the Year’, Comms Business Awards ‘Hosted IP Telephony Supplier of the Year’, PCR Awards ‘Specialist Vendor of the Year’ and categorise of Best Business Fixed Broadband ISP, Best Internet Telephony and Best Business Customer Service ISP in 2010 ISPA Awards.[24]
Wins ISPA Awards ‘Best Internet Telephony’ [25]
ISPA Awards ‘Best Business Customer Service ISP’ (Finalist)
ITSPA Awards ‘Best Business ITSP (SMEs)’ (Finalist)
ITSPA Awards ‘Best Business ITSP (Large Enterprise)’ (Finalist)
Formerly run as a separate company Entacall this division, now integrated with Entanet, provides traditional voice services such as Non-Geographic Numbers, Carrier Pre-Select, Wholesale Line Rental and VoIP.
Entanet started as a simple ISP providing Internet Access to business and residential end users but has branched out and now specialised in Wholesale Internet Services for Corporates and smaller ISPs.
Acting as an aggregator of other people services rather than as a true wholesale provider of broadband, Entanet has been able to carve a substantial niche[26] of L2TP delivered broadband services to smaller ISP's.
Entanet provides a range of different solutions when it comes to Leased lines and Metro Ethernet solutions, but are specialising in providing wholesale solutions delivered to smaller ISPs using MPLS based solutions.
Entanet's colocation facilities are based in Telford and London. At their headquarters in Telford, they maintain 3 bespoke data floors.