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Read MoreHow AI is changing the way we work with GCNs
By Robert McCabe, Director of GCN Sales at Colt The IT and telecommunications sector is said to have the highest AI adoption rate at 29.5% and this is driving a massive increase in both bandwidth requirements and the need for low-latency connections close to end users. As a partner to the world’s biggest global content…
Read MoreReflecting on our accessibility journey
By Rachel Collins, Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Colt The third Thursday of each May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This time last year, Colt kickstarted its journey to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about accessibility. We did it with the launch of our five-year Accessibility Roadmap: Optimising Accessibility. Our journey started…
Read MoreBusiness continuity at Colt: preparing for major sporting events
As Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) kicks off, it’s a great time to look ahead to the summer and how Colt’s Business Continuity team comes together to prepare for major sporting events. These are events that take place in cities with many Colt people, customers and infrastructure and it means we need to be prepared…
Read MoreColt completes latest ultra-fast 400GbE network, helping customers to reduce carbon emissions and drive down cost
Colt continues to deliver its Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ultra-fast digital infrastructure services with speeds up to 800GbE, reinforcing its position as a leader in global digital infrastructure services. The latest of the services to be rolled out – a 400GbE solution for a customer in Europe – accelerates the delivery of digital services including cloud…
Read MoreWhat is Unified Communications (UC)?
Unified Communications describes the integration of multiple communication methods (such as Email, Phone, Video and Messaging) within a business.
Read MoreHybrid working causes 139% increase in peak office bandwidth
Hybrid work is having a major impact on network traffic in offices. The peak bandwidth at our London office (Colt House) jumped 139% from 2020, even with a 84% reduction in devices on the network. As more people head back into the office, IT managers and their teams need to consider the impact of new…
Read MoreA guide to SASE implementation
Download the guide to discover a guide to SASE implementation, to help you find the right pathway for your business.
Read MoreColt and Versa Networks mark milestone in delivering SD-WAN as a service for global customers
1000 SD WAN services remotely provisioned across 55 countries, cutting connection time for global customers from 90 minutes to 12 seconds Colt Technology Services, the digital infrastructure company, today marked a milestone with strategic partner Versa Networks, the global leader in AI/ML-powered Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), in its commitment…
Read MoreWhat is SASE?
Secure Access Service Edge, better known as SASE is a recently emerging term, coined originally by Gartner in 2019. SASE is the convergence of modern WAN services and network security services into a single cloud based service model.
Read MoreCIMD chooses Colt to guide express migration of contingency centre
Faced with the challenge of migrating its contingency data centre in a short period of time, CIMD opted for Equinix’s colocation hosting solution, offered through Colt. It became the first customer in Southern Europe to use this joint service, which allowed minimal interruption of operations and guaranteed the continuity of synchronous information backup. Jesús Mayo,…
Read MoreThe ultimate guide to SD WAN
Home Technology Page 3 | 15 min read What is SD WAN? SD WAN is a networking technology that enables you to manage & optimise the connectivity of multiple sites across different network transport services, such across the public internet, MPLS or LTE. Now, next-generation SD WAN is here, and it uses the cloud to…
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