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Optical connectivity: Networking & wavelength services

Our Optical Wavelength service delivers low latency, high capacity up to 400Gbps across the UK.

Optical Wavelengths provide businesses with high capacity core connectivity without the capital-intensive responsibility of investing in network infrastructure or the in-house IT expertise needed to manage and maintain the network.

Our Optical Wavelengths are available in 10Gbps, 100Gbps and 400Gbps capacities, with multiple wavelengths able to be provisioned between sites. Ethernet, Fiberchannel and Infiniband are also supported.

The high capacity service is ideal for high-speed financial trading, storage replication, network extension, cross-site virtualisation and cloud service orchestration applications.

Benefits of Optical connectivity

Benefits

There are a number of reasons why you should consider Optical connectivity for your business:

We can facilitate bespoke requirements to meet your connectivity requirements
Our DWDM and ROADM services offers scale, flexibility and speed
We offer a choice of bandwidths including 10Gbps, 100Gbps and 400Gbps across the UK
Highly transported routes benefit from a pre-populated Optical Transport Network for speed of delivery
Low latency, highly available service, with route diversity, resiliency and security options
Optical protection and encryption are available on a bespoke basis

Features of our Optical service

  1. Up to 88 channels per fibre
  2. Up to 99.95% availability
  3. A choice of service interfaces offered depending on customer requirements: Ethernet, OTN, FC 100, FC 1200, SONET/SDH, ESCON, DVB-ASI or PSIFB
  4. Vast UK-wide network reach through unbundled exchanges
  5. 400Gbps Optical connectivity available from 26 UK data centres

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Optical connectivity FAQs

Take a look at our FAQs for Optical connectivity

  • What are Optical Wavelengths?

    Optical Wavelengths are high capacity methods of transporting data from one point to another, using fibre optics.

    Optical Wavelengths make use of Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) to split the light into its various wavelengths to ensure different traffic does not interfere with one another and offers greater capacity. Find out what Optical Wavelengths are and how they range in bandwidth?

  • What optical wavelength bandwidths do Neos Networks offer?

    We're proud to offer one of the highest capacity, business-only optical networks in the UK. Our Optical Wavelength service is provided in 10Gbps, 100Gbps and 400Gbps variants - find out more here.

  • What is Wave Division Multiplexing?

    Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) is a technology that can enable the capacity of optical fibre to be expanded by adding and multiplexer and a demultiplexer at each end of the fibre. This enables different streams of data to be sent over a single optical fibre simultaneously. Simply put, WDM allows the light to be split into different light channels – or wavelengths – which have a different frequency meaning they can be transmitted simultaneously.

  • What are ROADMs?

    Until recently, Optical networks were hard to change. The routes traffic took were fixed and inefficient and bandwidth was not being optimised. That was until Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADMs) came along. Discover more about ROADMs.

  • Dark Fibre vs Lit Fibre

    There is a lot of conversation about fibre, but exactly what is the difference between Dark Fibre and Lit Fibre, and which one is right for you?

  • Dark Fibre vs Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)

    The need for Dark Fibre has been driven by a demand for dedicated and reliable, high capacity, low-latency services. Dark Fibre is, simply, an ‘unlit’ glass fibre strand with no equipment attached to it. This gives businesses the option of using any protocol of their choice and their own equipment, safe in the knowledge that only their traffic travels across that fibre strand. Compare Dark Fibre vs. DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and the learn more about the benefits each can bring to your business.

  • What is fibre latency?

    Fibre latency is distance dependent, with distance representing the route of the physical network, rather than as the crow flies. The longer the distance, the greater the latency. 

    We must also consider the number of nodes. In simple terms, these are exchange sites with equipment that makes fibre “active”. The more nodes, the more latency is increased, unless some form of signal/light amplifier is used to mitigate.

    The lowest latency on a fibre network is achieved when distances between two sites are short, with as few exchanges in between as possible.

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