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Openreach has launched its high-bandwidth managed service that allows communications providers (CPs) to operate private data connections using virtual dark fibre.
In what the company is calling a ‘UK first’ the new service called Optical Spectrum Access Filter Connect (OSA FC) will enable customers to scale up its capacity to support 100Gbps with a maximum of bandwidth of more than 3 Terabits.
“We’ve re-engineered our high-bandwidth optical services to give our wholesale customers far greater flexibility at a fantastic price,” said Darren Wallington, Openreach’s general manager for high bandwidth and passive products. “OSA Filter Connect allows providers to grow their needs affordably, at their own pace and using their choice of innovative equipment.”
Openreach says that the offering gives CPs all the benefits of dark fibre such as the ability to o control and increase bandwidth usage at no extra cost – without compromising on service and maintenance levels. OSA FC does this by enabling CPs to operate their own network electronics on top of managed connection that is monitored by Openreach on a 24/7 basis. One of the major sells of the of the new service is that it has a five hour repair time in comparison to the days it would take to discover and repair faults on dark fibre.
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