It’s the groundwork that makes the network.
A new data centre doesn’t open without fibre. A multi-building rollout doesn’t get cheaper without ownership. A 100Gbps link doesn’t go in on time without a surveyor onsite the week you asked. We’re the people who do that work — and the people you can ring when something underground stops behaving.
Four things we think dark fibre is for.
These four came out of years of explaining the same thing to IT Directors who’d been quoted three different prices by three different carriers for the same job. They’re the reason most of our customers eventually own the fibre they paid for — instead of renting it back, month after month, from the company that installed it.
Take control
You decide the bandwidth, the route, and the contract length. Not the carrier.
Minimise costs
Ownership fixes the cost over the projected life of the contract. No annual rental creep.
Flex your bandwidth
Lit at 1Gbps today. Lit at 100Gbps next year. Same fibre. Different equipment.
Own your network
Buy the asset, lease the asset, or take an IRU. We’ll structure it the way that works for your balance sheet.
Thirty years of doing this.
Our experienced team has been building solutions for business customers, ISPs, data centres and service providers for a long time.
We also have a range of managed solutions, dedicated fibre and leased connectivity which we tailor to your needs. It’s not difficult to do bespoke tailoring if your team is highly skilled and the company is designed to please the customer by meeting their needs.
The people you’ll deal with directly.
Steve Ives
Over 35 years managing fibre and connectivity across the world for Magellan and Equant, as well as building fibre networks in the UK.
steve@sicom.uk
Richard Auld
Over 33 years in business telecoms, including telephony, dial-up, broadband, managed networks and dark fibre.
richard@sicom.uk(There’s a wider engineering and surveying team behind both of them. You’ll meet them on a project.)
We work across carriers, not for one.
Most fibre companies sell you their own network. We pick from the carriers that fit your route.
Openreach for the last mile where the duct already exists. National carriers for the high-bandwidth backbone. Adtran equipment to enhance Openreach solutions with more protocols and bandwidths. Openreach leased lines and dedicated fibre. BT Wholesale, Neos, Colt, Virgin Media, Vodafone and regional altnets when the route demands it.
We’ve published a guide on how we think about it.
Postcode and bandwidth. That’s the form.
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