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Why digital infrastructure?

The growth in digital infrastructure is driven by cloud migration, the hybrid workplace, the automation of almost everything and the need to enable flexibility of service and capability on a global scale.

Taking cloud migration to the next level

What’s your biggest technology driver?

Migrating data to the cloud
Providing secure network access to remote users
Dealing with legacy infrastructure

Cloud connectivity explained

Below is a high level Colt decision tree for cloud connectivity options for Colt's cloud connectivity portfolio offering:

Colt offer a wide range of cloud connectivity options, ranging from standardised IP Transit over the public internet through to dedicated fibre services entirely private to your organisation.

Connect to the cloud on your terms

Dedicated Cloud Access

Colt Dedicated Cloud Access (DCA) is a direct cloud connect solution that empowers you – with secure, high performance, end-to-end connectivity – to major cloud providers. Connect your clouds rapidly, on a global scale, from over 31,000 buildings and 1000 data centres.

Secure - Mission-critical traffic between any enterprise site and a cloud access PoP is routed entirely across the Colt network, keeping it more secure.
On demand - Using our simple portal, you can scale up and down, your bandwidth – in minutes (instead of waiting days or months), and pay only for what you use. Or if you prefer, you can also order using order forms and fixed payments.
Service Quality - Guaranteed service quality with industry-leading SLAs covering: delivery, fault handling, availability, frame loss, latency and jitter.
Performance - We operate one of the lowest latency networks, so data is routed over the lowest-latency paths to your chosen cloud provider.
Connect to any major cloud - We have top tier-level partnerships with major cloud providers, and a leading number of cloud connections (200+ public cloud PoPs)
Extensive coverage - Our award-winning global network spans 32 countries, 51 major metropolitan cities across Europe, Asia and the US

Building a flexible foundation

Supporting and underpinning the infrastructure that helps enterprises reach their peak digital performance

Your customers' networks need to support new applications and use cases – fast – without sacrificing performance, security or latency. With digital transformation in overdrive, it’s no surprise that traditional networks struggle to keep up.

Partnering with Colt, we move away from the traditional, equipping you with Colt's extraordinary connections that enable you to do extraordinary business. To see what we mean, watch this short video.

Digital infrastructure on your terms

Achieve real-time and scalable control of your network connectivity.

Welcome to agile digital infrastructure

Imagine cutting-edge digital infrastructure that does exactly what you need, when you need it. Delivering access in minutes to a global fibre network, cloud providers and leading-edge applications.

You choose how you connect, wherever and however you want, through an award-winning portal, innovative APIs or as an extension of your own network.

It’s end-to-end connectivity where you’re in control.

See how the Colt On Demand portal works in five minutes.

Colt On Demand is an SDN powered portal, that allows you to choose how you connect, wherever and however you want. Want to see how it works?

Experience the portal here

The future of SASE

According to Gartner®, “The SASE market is forecast to grow from $7 billion in 2022 to $25 billion by 2027 (a compound annual growth rate of 29.4%). The market also has a fast-growing number of new competitors. Technology general managers must focus on building compelling SASE offerings and expanding in regional markets.”*

According to us, this means that the opportunities for to adopt a SASE solution, either from one or multiple vendors, are only set to increase. Businesses can rely on digital infrastructure companies to help guide them through this process, knowing that their experience will aid their decision on who can provide the ideal solution.

To help you decide which pathway is best, read our full guide here.

*Gartner, Market Opportunity Map: Secure Access Service Edge, Worldwide by By Evan Zeng, Neil MacDonald, Naresh Singh, 6 November 2023
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

SD WAN and SASE: at a glance

With such a variety of options available to accelerate your digital transformation comes a broad scope of considerations: security, legislation and hybrid workforces, to name but a few. Colt’s Security Product Manager, Mark Bales, describes how to navigate these solutions in this seven-minute video.

It was impossible to escape the topic of AI in 2023 and in our 2023 Intelligent Infrastructure Report, Colt found that 47% of IT decision-makers had already adopted AI in some form. SASE is the perfect foundation to build artificial intelligence into your company; if you’ve decided to embrace the potential of this industry-changing technology, consider how your future digital infrastructure plans might be able to support implementation.

Why not also take part in one of our innovation workshops?
Whether your business has already adopted an SD WAN and SASE solution, or is looking for information, flexibility, reliability and efficiency; Expect Solutions can help you plan and include these key factors.

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To find out more, read the full guide

Power your digital engine with secure SD WAN

By 2024, 60% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WAN, compared with about 30% in 2020*

SD WAN benefits:

Cost
Resilience
Speed of delivery
Control
Flexibility
Agility

Colt SD WAN network trifecta:

Stable underlay
Scalable overlay
Seamless security

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Cyber Security

Secure your network from cyber threats and security incidents

Worldwide, threats from cyber-attacks are growing both in numbers and intensity. At Colt, we prepare global companies for this new era, with an all-encompassing secure connectivity, through range of products including Firewalls, Secure Network Gateways, DDoS Protection and Network Encryption. As effective security relies on multiple layers of defence, we provide a holistic security with protection at all the various vulnerability touchpoints: at network edge and core and along the network path.

Managed firewall - Safeguard your internal networks and systems from Cyber threats using Colt Managed firewall services. choose from different managed

DDoS protection - Protect your internet based application and services from Distributed Denial of Services using Colt's IP Guardian service.

Network encryption - secure your in-flight data with Colt's network encryption services. Protect your optical and voice services with end-to-end encryption.

Secure network gateway - Protect your network with Zscalers industry-leading Security-as-a-Service solution

We are the only voice and data communications provider in the world to have obtained GDPR-compliant Binding Corporate Rules ‘BCR’, which gives our customers the highest possible standards of data protection when transferring global personal data.

Fighting the new DDos threat

Protection for the next generation of cyber threats

DDoS Attacks have been around for about 20 years. However the ever changing threat landscape has driven DDoS back to the very top of the cybersecurity agenda and demands a new approach.

Protect your business infrastructure at the cloud, network and Edge with Colt IP Guardian.

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