Broadband service provider
Global TeleSystems (GTS)
announced Friday that
Energis Carrier Services (ECS)
has ordered an Optical Sub-Network (OSN) service between Zurich,
Milan, Geneva, Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg.
Initially, ECS will purchase a 2.5 Gbps dedicated bandwidth
channel to connect the five new cities. It already has a
similar connection between London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam,
Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.
“As the e-business revolution drives a growing hunger for
capacity in Europe, carriers like ECS are harnessing the
power of our IP-enabled trans-European network to meet
the needs of their customers,” said Gerard Caccappolo,
president of GTS Carrier Services.
Ray Ridgwell, managing director of ECS, said that the
GTS network was the most robust international network
in Europe and was helping ECS to become one of the premier
carriers in the region.
The OSN service uses dense wavelength division multiplexing
(DWDM) technology which enablels huge volumes of data to
be transmitted in comparison to networks of an earlier
generation.
ECS will be able to upgrade its 2.5 Gbps dedicated bandwidth
channel to 10 Gbps while also expanding it to other OSNs
on the GTS network.
GTS operates the largest cross-border fiber-optic network
and the largest Tier-1 IP backbone in Europe. Its European
headquarters are in London and it has offices in 80
European cities.
Earlier this week Energis announced it has invested
£7.5 million ($12 million) in Broker-to-Broker Networks Inc.
(B2B), a financial e-commerce/online broking software and
support company. The investment brings a 30 per cent stake in
B2B.
