UK-based Colt has announced its new fiber network route from Dublin to London via Manchester is now fully operational. This is the second high bandwidth route from Colt which links the two capitals with the first connecting via Birmingham.

The new network from Dublin to London via Manchester is a 100Gbps and 394km fiber route that can provide up to 4.2Tbps network capacity.  Colt said the network is ready to support new technical solutions including IPv6 and 1000Gbps Ethernet. It is underpinned by ‘robust’ systems and processes to enable proactive monitoring and rapid provisioning of services supported by end-to-end SLAs.

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The expansions will help to address European organizations’ infrastructure concerns, as 8 in 10 admitted their current network won’t meet business needs in two years’ time according to Colt. In June Colt released results of its Tech Deficit research study, in which it approached more than 800 enterprise and SME IT decision makers across eight European countries.

The results of the study showed as a whole the majority of European organizations highlighted their infrastructure foundations need to evolve over the next two years to meet future business needs including – voice and communications (88%), data center infrastructure (90%) and network infrastructure (85%).

Colt EVP, network services François Eloy said: “with half of the world’s top banks in Ireland, we’re seeing an increasing demand for high bandwidth connectivity, driven by the move to cloud services and the mission critical nature of data in the digital economy.”

Colt is building several new networks and plans to open routes in the Iberian Peninsula, Northern Europe and the Netherlands later on in the year.

The new network expansion now complete a network ring that links both capitals and can connect hundreds of Ireland-based firms in the financial services, media and retail sectors in more than 195 European cities.

Colt customers can now connect to all major business parks in Dublin, 20 data centers in and around the city and provides fiber access to more than 250 buildings.