Our partners

Independent. But we know everyone.

We don’t sell you our own network. We don’t have one. We pick the right carrier — or carriers — for your route, your bandwidth, and a timeline you can live with. Here are the people we work with most.

Openreach

A Communications Provider with Openreach

We’re a Communications Provider with Openreach. That means we can contract Openreach directly for last-mile fibre access into your site — duct, fibre, splice and live, on the standard CP process.

The obvious choice for the last mile

For a lot of UK projects, Openreach is the obvious choice for the last mile. The duct already exists. The blow distances are known. The wayleaves are familiar. We start there when the route allows it, and we go elsewhere when it doesn’t.

Where it landed

At GCRE — the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales — we contracted Openreach to provide diversely-routed multi-fibre cables between the modular DC site and two local exchanges, ahead of the DC opening. GCRE case study

Adtran

Active-layer kit

We use Adtran kit on the active layer of a lot of our networks. The hardware is good. The roadmap is good. And — relevant if you’re thinking about future interoperability — around 30% of Openreach’s FTTP estate runs on Adtran, which is roughly 8.6 million UK premises.

Partnership tier

The partnership tier is being confirmed — we’ll publish the level of certification at review.

The carriers we work alongside on projects

These aren’t channel partners. They’re national and international carriers we route across when the job calls for it.

COLT

High-bandwidth backbone, particularly into central UK metros and London. We’ve costed Colt routes alongside Openreach on multi-carrier surveys.

NEOS NETWORKS

Wholesale dark fibre and wavelengths. Shows up on UK DC and ISP shortlists; we’ll include them in a survey when the geography fits.

NATIONAL CARRIERS (NAMED PER PROJECT)

For the 15-site AI DC evaluation, we ordered 4×100Gbps links from a national carrier alongside Openreach’s last-mile work. Carrier name confirmed at review per client preference.

REGIONAL ALTNETS

CityFibre, ITS Technology Group, and the regional fibre networks pick up routes the big two don’t reach. We survey them when they matter.

THE POINT OF INDEPENDENCE

That’s the point of independence. We don’t have a contractual reason to recommend one of these over another. We have a route, a bandwidth target, a deadline, and a budget. The carriers compete for that on merit, every time.

Why independence matters

On a new-build data centre.

You get the right combination, not the available one.

Carriers will quote you what’s in their network. We quote you what’s in everyone’s network. Different question, different answer.

False diversity gets caught.

A single carrier selling you “diverse” routes through their own network isn’t motivated to tell you they share a duct two miles in. We are.

The commercial conversation is yours.

You own the relationship with the carrier — or we structure the contracts so you can take it over later. No vendor lock-in dressed up as a partnership.

Long-term, the asset is yours.

We design routes you can own outright, not rent for the length of the contract. Few competitors do business this way.

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We’ll tell you which carriers can reach each one — and at what cost.

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