Small cells: the only way to 5G

Bernhard Pussel, Director of Operator Channel, Colt Technology Services was invited by Telecoms.com as their expert third-party contributor to talk about the ever increasing demand for capacity in mobile networks and how small cells are key in the future of 5G. It’s been estimated that the volume of global monthly mobile data traffic will exceed…

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Product update: Global MPLS services

Last quarter we talked about Colt’s backbone network expansion, focussing on the Ethernet area. And we have let you know that we deployed E-NNI number 500 with our network partners increasing our reach in order to satisfy or customers’ needs. Colt are focussing on increasing the network coverage in other areas as well. This applies…

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Big data – big network

Everybody seems to talk about “Big Data” these days. From an IT perspective this topic certainly is one of the key drivers; as challenges grow, the larger the portion of data that you need to store, analyse and consequently need to be make available for business needs. In addition to the storage challenge, large portions…

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Data Centre connectivity services

To help you leverage all your business opportunities about multiple data centres connectivity services, Colt offers the unique High Speed Service proposition combined with the best  network reach in Europe. As part of the Operator Channel, you know the business opportunities that are brought about by the increased customer demand for data center colocation and…

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Market reflection of Colt products

Gartner Gartner’s latest “Critical Capabilities Report” scored various Colt data services with high scores, in the Ethernet area with the highest possible scores. Colt is one of only two vendors that have been given the highest score for their Ethernet services in the second consecutive year. Rating 5 out of 5 demonstrates Colt’s leading position…

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Data networking becomes more cloud-like

Although there has been significant hype surrounding network functions virtualisation (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN), it is clear that there is real substance to the technologies. As these, along with other new approaches, are rolled out there will be impacts on the operator-to-operator market. However, they are the enablers of transformation not the reasons…

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