Who is Private Wave designed for?

Colt Private Wave is available in any city where Colt has a fibre-optic metropolitan area network (so that's 54 in total) and is designed specifically for businesses that require high capacity, secure and resilient optical connectivity. The typical use case for Private Wave is interconnecting between key business locations to cover disaster recovery and business continuity architectures.

Private Wave

The best-in-class optical networking, but make it private

Colt Private Wave provides secure, flexible and high performance private optical networking built on customer-dedicated WDM network equipment and fibre infrastructure. It is designed to meet the most demanding customer needs, supporting multiple optical services or service types up to 400Gbps.

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Why choose Private Wave?

Best in class encryption

FIPScertified AES-256 encryption with standards-based authentication mechanisms such as X.509 digital certificates
Always on

Encryption is inherent to the service, being embedded in the optical hardware for maximum security and scalability
Unlimited bandwidth

Bandwidth options from 1Gbps to 100Gbps, with support for all major optical presentations including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, OTU2 and OTU4
Unprecedented reach

We're connected to 29,000+ buildings and 900+ data centres in Europe, Asia and America, more than any other carrier
Simplicity you can trust

Colt is your single partner, leaving no need for multiple suppliers and various network contacts – you're in safe hands
Secure management

You have the option to manage your own encryption keys and configuration to match your preferences

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Private Optical Wave explained

Colt Private Wave is available in any city where Colt has a fibre-optic metropolitan area network (so that’s 54 in total) and is designed specifically for businesses that require high capacity, secure and resilient optical connectivity.
The typical use case for Private Wave is interconnecting between key business locations to cover disaster recovery and business continuity architectures.