16 May 2017
NGD says the high-speed connection at its Cardiff data centre addresses growing network traffic from cloud customers.
Next Generation Data (NGD) says it has become one of the first data centres outside London to go live with BT’s new Wholesale Optical and Optical Connect National service which delivers 10Gb, nx10Gb and 100GbE symmetric point-to-point connectivity.
Located in the Cardiff Capital Region, NGD is said to be a purpose-built carrier-neutral Tier 3 facility offering 750,000ft2 of “highly secure and cost-effective” space housing up to 22,000 racks. The operator says these can be arranged into self-contained and colocation data halls of various sizes all with independent services, resilient power and cooling systems.
NGD says it is using BT’s new optical service to support “unprecedented” growth in network traffic created by a “major surge” in its cloud-based offerings. With a direct connection to its data centre, the company claims BT’s high-performance optical solutions will support demand by offering customers a flexible, scalable and resilient solution including secure, uncontended bandwidth with zero jitter and packet loss.
Next Generation Data CEO Nick Razey says the service is in line with his firm’s commitment to providing customers the maximum choice of low latency fibre connectivity solutions.
He adds: “Our data centre is relied on by a rapidly increasing number of enterprise cloud users and service providers which makes the availability of high-speed, highly resilient and secure network services a top priority.
