Nicolas Fischbach

Colt has introduced a number of innovations that enables us to deliver network services faster and more efficiently for our customers and we were delighted to be recognised as Operator of the Year at the Network Virtualisation & SDN World event earlier this week.   Over the years we have openly shared ideas with our peers [...] Read more

So what you might say? Well, it’s some sort of an achievement as it required a combination of a number of small and not so small things: my laptop was using its IPv6 stack, my web browser behaved properly, the local wireless LAN didn’t break it and handed it over to Colt’s network, it went across [...] Read more

Historically most Service Providers, especially for their business offerings, have been installing multiple devices on customer premises to deliver Internet access or IPVPN services over diverse WAN transport technologies. Beyond the higher unit cost and more complex service delivery and assurance, this additional CPE router also constrained customer services. Colt Technology Services has partnered with Juniper [...] Read more

Luke Broome, Colt’s CTO, recently said “Investing into network programmability is an important step towards delivering integrated network and compute services and helps keep Colt at the forefront of innovation. This evolving model brings the network closer to the applications and will enable our customers to flex and consume their managed IT and network services in [...] Read more

IPv4 address exhaustion is growing in people’s minds. Internet Society recently announced IPv6 Launch Day (June 6th 2012!), but nothing new, as there’s been much activity in recent years and many service providers like Colt have been very active in preparing their networks, systems and products to support IPv6! As well as manage the IPv4/IPv6 coexistence [...] Read more