Entanet

Entanet International Ltd.

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Type	Limited Company
Industry	Internet
Genre	Company Profile
Founded	1996[1]
Founder	Jason Tsai
Headquarters	Telford, UK
Area served	UK, Europe, Worldwide
Key people	Jason Tsai [2] Mobeus Equity Partners Elsa Chen (Director) Richard Atkins (non-exec chairman) Stephen Barclay (Sales Director) Ian Brewer (Finance Director) Steve Lalonde (Chief Technical Officer)[2]
Products	Wholesale Internet Services
Services	ADSL2+ and Fibre Broadband Leased Line EFM GEA Colocation IP VPN Domains Transit VoIP SIP Trunking Marketing Numbers Non-Geographic Numbers FTTC
Revenue	2013 27 million GBP
Owner	Mobeus Equity Partners Jason Tsai Entanet management team
Number of employees	78 (Nov 2013)
Parent	none
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]

History

1996

Entanet is formed as a limited company in November after running as a separate business unit with Enta Technologies since February.

2005

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]

2006

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]

2007

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]

2008

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]

2010

On 3 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]

2011

Entanet launches synergi^[14] partner portal website on 12 April. It provides resellers with account management and ordering, reporting processes and encourages knowledge sharing between partners and the company itself.^[15]

2012

Entanet launches 80 Mbit/s FTTC. The company also made improvements to their UK infrastructure by upgrading the capacity of its northern ring to 10 Gbit/s. They also announced a new colocation site in Slough.^[16]

2013

Entanet launch BT based unlimited broadband.^[17] They also launched Generic Ethernet Access (GEA) ^[18]

2014

In February, Entanet announced a significant investment in its business, with Mobeus Equity Partners making an initial £6 million investment to support the £14 million management buyout.^[19]

Awards

2006

Nominated for three separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any ^[20]

Wins CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.^[21]

2007

Nominated for five separate ISPA awards, but didn't win any. Sponsored the 'Best Portal' award. ^[22]

Retains CRN Channel awards "Specialist Vendor" of the year award.^[23]

2008

Nominated for five separate ISPA awards. ^[24] - Wins Best Consumer Email ^[25] and Best Internet Telephony^[25]

Finalist for Specialist Vendor of the Year – CRN Channel Awards 2008. ^[26]

2010

Ranked 78th in the Real Business Hot 100 ^[27]

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.^[28]

2011

Wins ISPA Awards ‘Best Internet Telephony’ ^[29]

2012

Wins Comms National Awards for Best Channel Wholesale Service Provider^[30]

2013

Wins Comms National Awards for Best Channel ISP^[31]
Won at the ISPA Awards for Best Business Fixed Broadband ^[32]
Entanet were awarded Channel Marketing campaign of the year at the Comms Dealer Sales Awards.^[33]

2014

Entanet's marketing team won Best Marketing Team at the Comms Dealer Sales Awards ^[34]

Product Divisions

Voice

Formerly run as a separate company Entacall this division, now integrated with Entanet, provides traditional voice services such as non-geographic numbers (NGNs), carrier preselect (CPS), wholesale line rental (WLR) and VoIP.

Data

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.

Broadband

Entanet's broadband serves two different channel partner groups, those who want to resell broadband packages and earn commission; and those who want to take Entanet's wholesale broadband to carve their own niche under their own brand. Entanet has been able to carve a substantial niche^[35] of L2TP delivered broadband services to smaller ISP's.

Leased Lines and Metro Ethernet

Entanet provides a range of different solutions when it comes to Leased lines and Ethernet (such as Ethernet in the First Mile EFM and Generic Ethernet Access GEA) solutions, but are specialising in providing wholesale solutions delivered to smaller ISPs using MPLS based solutions.

Colocation

Entanet's colocation facilities are based in Telford, London and Slough. At their headquarters in Telford, they maintain 3 bespoke data floors.

Notes and references

External links

• www.enta.net
• NOC Site
• Entanet Opinion - ISP industry news and views from Entanet International Ltd
• Peering Information
• Entry on Thinkbroadband
• Technorati Entries