Dark fibre

Dark Fibre at City Lifeline

Installing dark fibre involves massive front-end capital outlay, digging up miles of London streets and installing specialised secure inspection and access points.

Dark Fibre providers only invest in presence in colocation data centres they know and trust, and where they expect to generate significant revenues from voice, data or internet traffic.

Dark Fibre is suitable for organisations with large and sustainable long-term bandwidth requirements. It means you can be completely in control of the communications between your various sites, you can operate with absolute minimum latency, and you can absolutely define, reserve, minimise and control the expansion capacity and costs at the outset of an installation’s life.

Dark Fibre providers

Few London colocation data centres can offer Dark Fibre. City Lifeline can offer a carrier neutral choice of Dark Fibre providers, enabling competitive pricing and diverse routing. Here are the Dark Fibre providers:

	Eunetworks provides Dark Fibre connections within 13 metropolitan areas of Europe, and a fast backbone between them. Customers at the City lifeline carrier neutral colocation data centre in London can interconnect with eunetworks and other colocation data centres.
	Geo provide bespoke national network Dark Fibre solutions, based on the belief that major UK businesses and organisations should have dedicated, secure fibre as standard. Customers who colocate with Geo in City Lifeline’s independent carrier neutral data centre at Lifeline House in Central London can connect to Geo Dark Fibre.
	Interoute’s Dark Fibre service allows you the flexibility of choice over the service platforms you wish to deploy. In Lifeline House, the independent colocation data centre operated by City Lifeline in Central London, customers can colocate with Interoute.
	SSE Telecoms (formerly Neos Networks) owns and operates over 3240km of regional fibre networks that run alongside Scottish and Southern Energy’s regional electricity infrastructure. Customers colocating with Neos in Lifeline House, City Lifeline’s carrier neutral independent colocation data centre in Central London have access to Neos Dark Fibre.
	Zayo provides dark fibre on a fixed cost basis, providing a cost effective alternative to constructing private business networks. Zayo provides Dark Fibre between the carrier neutral colocation data centre operated by City Lifeline in Central London and many other locations.