08 February 2017

CTO Charlie Boisseau says Commsworld’s connection between Edinburgh and Glasgow does not run across any third party fibre.

Commsworld says it has become Scotland’s first independent telecoms firm to establish an inter-city carrier network. 

The claim comes after the company invested more than a £1 million in building its own pure fibre route to link networks in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland’s two largest economic hubs.

Edinburgh-headquartered Commsworld used DWDM (dense wave division multiplexing) to light an 80km span of dark fibre it procured. 

This link lies between what’s described as two of Scotland’s “highest performing” data centres – the recently launched £200m Fortis centre in North Lanarkshire and Pulsant’s facility in western Edinburgh.

Commsworld reckons its link offers “practically unlimited capacity” and operates at up to 100Gbps, making it 5,000 faster than the average UK broadband connection. 

The company says it is now able to deliver “massively reduced” overhead costs to its data centre customers, and offer almost “unlimited scope” for growth.

“By procuring long term leases of dark fibre already in the ground and applying our own technologies over that fibre, we have further control over costs and speeds, from the customer connection through the city network and even beyond,” says Commsworld CTO Charlie Boisseau. 

“It’s now possible for a Commsworld customer to receive a connection between these two cities that we can honestly guarantee does not traverse any third party equipment at the optical level”

He adds that the company is already looking to establish further long-haul dark fibre routes, including options to provide a secondary Glasgow-Edinburgh network as part of its efforts to become a telecoms operator of “real scale”.