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Welcome to the Colt IQ Network

The Colt IQ Network delivers extraordinary connections for customers around the world.

Intelligent, secure, flexible and available on demand, we enable the digital services that keep our customers businesses running with a consistent experience across borders.

Did you know? The Colt IQ Network connects to more data centres in Europe and Asia than any other provider? That's why we're first choice for organisations looking to connect globally.

The Colt IQ Network is a 400Gbps optimised intelligent network distributed to 1000+ data centres and carrier hotels around the world, providing best in class service and optimised for SDN, NFV and cloud services.

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A consistent experience across borders

We own our network and it wasn't just added together by a mix of acquisitions. This means we can ensure consistently competitive pricing, globally standardised network performance, and a network that is quick to improve and flexible to innovate. Check your address below to get started:

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Achieve real-time, scalable control of your network connectivity

Colt On Demand is our SDN-enabled, self-service platform providing real time connectivity over the Colt IQ Network bringing benefits such as online ordering and APIs, service delivery in minutes to cloud and data centres globally, flexible bandwidth options and contracts starting as little as an hour.

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Connect to more data centres in Europe and Asia than any other provider

We deliver a 400Gbps optimised intelligent network distributed to 1000+ data centres and carrier hotels around the world, providing best in class service and optimised for SDN, NFV and cloud services. We've been delivering connectivity for over 30 years, with consistently record-breaking NPS scores.

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Hitting new customer experience highs with our Q2 NPS

Customer experience is the pulse of every company and never has it been so important for brands to go above and beyond so customers know that they will get the service they need. With all businesses under pressure to deliver, ‘somewhat’ satisfied is no longer enough.

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Colt provides Europe with the Channel’s most capable cables

In partnership with Getlink, Colt will replace the fibre optics that run through the Eurotunnel with cables that are capable of an ultra-low latency, terabit per second connection – all within the secure hallway of the tunnel itself, and at speeds the fastest the tunnel has ever seen. Connecting the United Kingdom to France via…

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Colt Technology Services expands its network into South Korea

Establishes new POPs in four major data centres in Seoul Metropolitan area

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Colt and Equinix extend their partnership to support digital transformation in France

New connection points in Equinix’s strategically placed BX1 data centre, provide connectivity for subsea cables from the US, France and UK

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998, 999, 1,000. We’ve hit two industry-leading milestones

We’ve increased our connectivity to data centres and cloud on-ramps, hitting two industry-leading milestones. Colt now connects to over 1,000 data centres and 225 cloud on-ramps in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, more than any other network provider in Europe and Asia. During the past decade, public cloud and neutral data centres have become…

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Colt delivers industry-first deployment of 800G technology in the L-band

Uses Ciena’s innovative technology to provision L-band wave in a terrestrial production network, enabling double the capacity offered by a single fibre pair

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