The Automation Story

Colt’s continuous automation strategy is to transform the way that customers evaluate and buy services from us by creating an online experience tailored to each customer type. Starting with that customers’ self-service-portal we consequently drive for eliminating manual steps, redundant data checking and re-keying on the entire lifecycle of the evaluation, buying and delivery process.

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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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Colt wins Global Telecoms Business Award

Last week Colt has just won Global Telecoms Business award in the ”Fixed Network Infrastructure Innovation of the Year” category together with our Software Defined Networking (SDN) partner Cyan. Our next-generation Modular Multi-Service Platform (M-MSP) was recognised for addressing our customers’ business challenges in an innovative way. At Colt, we always seek to bring innovative…

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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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The new Colt

Over the past months Colt have conducted a strategic review of our performance by lines of business and resulting from that we have implemented the first milestone of our reorganisation per 1st May 2014 moving into four lines of business: Network Services, IT Services, Data Centre Services and Voice Services. These four new “Lines of…

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All about VoIP

The rise of SIP Trunking As one of the most important aspects of a company’s infrastructure, it is imperative that its communications systems can support employees in their day-to-day activities in communicating with each other and with customers across offices and across countries. Traditionally, voice networks have run separately to IP networks, but as companies…

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Data Centre connectivity services

A Colt junction box with many cables

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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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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