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IP Network

Direct Connect from 170+ data centres (or the cloud)

We’ve been on a bit of a mission recently to encourage customers to connect directly into our network to improve quality, stability and attack protec…

New IP Addresses

As part of continued improvements to our network we are introducing some new IP addresses for SIP signalling traffic in London, Manchester, and Sloug…

IP Network Overhaul

By Simon Woodhead It has been more than 4 years since we overhauled our core network and boy how the world has changed since then! Back then we chose…

Simon elected to LINX Board

By Simon Woodhead As you may have heard I was elected to the LINX Board on May 17th. I just wanted to thank all customers and friends who voted for m…

IP Transit Changes

It is important we continue to develop our IP network to ensure maximum stability and performance for customers. As we mentioned in “Surviving Someon…

Surviving somebody else’s DDoS

Many customers route traffic to us over the public Internet. Given the way our network is architected and our policies, most of this comes to us over…

Lies, damn lies and networks

There are some in this industry with an inclination to exaggerate or lie. ‘Lie’ is a harsh word though so let’s call it ‘marketing fluff’ from here o…

The bandwidth is (pretty much) irrelevant

Last year we posted an article urging people to check their DNS settings in order to ensure they were getting the full benefit of CDNs by delivering…

Manchester 10Gb Metro-LAN

We now have a redundant 10Gb/s ring around the major data-centres in Manchester. This is our own wave passing through all the major data-centres in a…

The IP Network for Voice Business

In our recent QoS white-paper, we explained how most IP Transit was ‘best-efforts’, giving no priority to voice and how congestion is routine (and co…

Storm Sandy

There is a possibility of disruption to the Internet and voice traffic later today. Simwood is unaffected by this directly but we want to let custome…

Level 3 IP Transit is live

We have today enabled IP Transit from Level 3 in our Slough site. This nicely compliments the TiNet transit we buy in Manchester and London and, of c…

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