V-Hub

Expand your reach. Extend your coverage in Europe. Enhance your offering. And do it all without investing.

Your customers like working with you. Your customers appreciate the levels of service you provide, but when they wish to break out their business into Europe, you struggle to offer them the coverage they need at an affordable price. Our Ethernet Virtual Hub (V-Hub) is the solution for you.

Ethernet V-Hub it is an affordable and adaptable Ethernet aggregation service that offers full Ethernet transparency (using double tagging) and multi-point connectivity so that you can configure your access needs to suit your service.

It is virtual, you set-up the hub anywhere you need it to be. It is completely independent of your premises, and can sit in any Colt city in Europe to provide your existing customers with connectivity priced at metro rates. You offer seamless communications at competitive prices remotely from your point of interconnection.

In business terms the Virtual Hub is a key that can unlock substantial opportunities for your organisation. Firstly, you can offer existing customers greater European reach without having to make any investment in hardware or in-house expertise. You can charge the right rates and make the right margins as well enhance your service offering. Secondly, you can go after new business in territories that, until now, had been uncompetitive for you. Virtual Hub is versatile – you get presence in new countries, you attract new customers and broaden your business base to encompass the whole of Europe.

Colt is the market leader when it comes to pan-European Ethernet services – Virtual Hub is an exciting opportunity. You go after business in cities that, until now, seemed either impossible to penetrate or too expensive to exploit. You can offer your existing customers enhanced coverage at the right price and target new business: It is the perfect opportunity to expand your business, extend your reach and enhance your success.

Our Ethernet Virtual-Hub delivers a pan-European Ethernet aggregation services that offer guaranteed bandwidth, complete security and total transparency. The fact that it is protocol independent means you configure the Ethernet services, for instance through individual VLAN’s, independently of Colt. So, you benefit from the easy of Ethernet access, service independence and network flexibility.

We pioneered the use of Ethernet as a carrier-class technology, so we can guarantee you the quality and the support that gives you the confidence to offer enhanced services to your customers. We use market leading Multi Service Platform (MSP) technology and support double tagging which means that all your interfaces are fully transparent to layer-2 Ethernet protocols. So, you can turn up and down your own services using different VLAN’s, broadcast and multicast domains transparently across the Ethernet infrastructure.
 

• You place your aggregation point anywhere in Europe
• A protected and dedicated backhaul circuit transports your customer’s data back to your NNI
• Great granularity means you match bandwidth to your needs – you only pay for what you need
• Double tagging means you set-up as many VLAN’s as you need on your own
• It is virtual, so you place your ‘hub’ anywhere in the Colt network and we deliver multiple circuits through just one access point
• Ethernet transparency means you integrate video, voice and data over a physical single access point and deliver it independently to remote sites
• It is resilient ,secure & provides predictable latency  – you use Colt’s state-of-the-art  MSP network
• Benefit from enhanced features such as Ethernet performance reporting and pro-active monitoring