Neos speeds up network service with Sorrento

Expands WDM infrastructure capacity

Telecom network operator Neos Networks has deployed Sorrento Networks’ wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) product, GigaMux, to support 1Gb Ethernet, 2.5Gb services and 10Gb LAN and WAN capabilities in the UK.

Sorrento’s GigaMux 3200 platform enables Neos to expand the capacity of its existing WDM infrastructure without interrupting traffic signals, and to offer high-speed services to customers.

Adrian Pike, group director of Neos Networks, said: “By cost-effectively increasing our network bandwidth we can make more next-generation consumer and business services available to our customers faster. Sorrento’s GigaMux platform gives us the level of flexibility we need to remain competitive in this fast-growth environment.”

An arm of Scottish and Southern Energy Group, Neos provides Ethernet, SDH leased lines, dark fibre, IP transit, liquid bandwidth, and wavelengths. It claims to be the first National Ethernet Service Provider in the UK.

Neos owns 3,240km fibre network asset in the UK. In early 2008, it has acquired telecoms duct network consisting of a 110mm duct populated with four sub ducts spanning 164km across London from Heathrow to the docklands area in the east.

According to Neos, the network has provided last mile connectivity in London for the company’s national liquid bandwidth Ethernet, SDH and wavelength services. In 2007, Neos has acquired a 1,100km national duct and fibre network.

Jim Nevelle, CEO of Sorrento Networks, said: “As traffic grows and urban networks become more complex, regions like the UK where Neos operates are seeing unprecedented growth of WDM in their metropolitan networks. Our GigaMux equipment allows operators like Neos to build highly cost-efficient transport networks that allow them to extend their services to the metro core and metro access faster than their competitors.”

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