21CN National Ethernet Network

Connect your site(s) to the next generation national backbone and benefit from high capacity, high stability, simple network connections.

With over 600 access points in the UK alone this is one of the most accessible networks and more of your sites can plug directly into the central backbone locally thus keeping your costs down.

Based on 21CN with an MPLS network core you can expect 99.93% or greater uptime, <10ms one way latency and a jitter of <3ms*

With 2Mb/s Leased Line equivalent services from only £349 per month (1:1 Direct Internet Access) and 10Mb/s circuits from only £549 per month the new network represents great value for money and could save your company thousands of pounds per annum versus the older generation Leased Lines.

Browse our solutions and see why Ethernet Connect really is the next generation.

*Performance figures are based on premium service(s) and are minimum targets.

Ethernet Connect - Overview

Connect your site(s) to the next generation national backbone at one of the 600+ (and growing) 21CN enabled telephone exchanges via...

• Copper* (up to 10Mb/s max.)
• Microwave+ (up to 34Mb/s max.)
• Fibre (10Mb/s, 100Mb/s & 1Gb/s)

Once connected to the core network then  'virtual' circuit can be created from the site across the network to your desired destinations which could include Internet Access / Transit.

Even if your site is not on one of the 21CN exchanges yet, the fibre connections can still be used providing you have fibre capability at your site and you are within 25Km of an enabled exchange.

*Copper access is delivered by EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) and speed is subject to distance and is only available if your site is directly connected to an active exchange. This product replaces SDSL access.
+Microwave connections to the network are via IC-air and is only available in select locations.

Ethernet Connect - Internet Access

You have your site connection to the backbone at say 100Mb/s fibre so now you could choose to have a 'virtual' circuit through the network at for example 10Mb/s standard service to our Internet Access point.

This would now provide you with upto 10Mb/s symmetric Internet access for your site and you can increase your speed in as little as 24 hours up to the maximum of your physical circuit.

Connectivity choices are:-

• Standard Access (5:1 Contention)
• Premium Access (Uncontended)

Ethernet Connect - Inter/Multi site

Just as you can create a 'virtual' circuit for Internet Access you could create a circuit to another connected site (remote office).

You choose the desired capacity between the sites required (up to the maximum physical circuit) and the networks will become joined at layer 2 (just like linking 2 switches together with an Ethernet cable).

Connectivity choices are:-

• Standard Access (5:1 Contention)
• Premium Access (Uncontended)

Because you have a single connection to the network at local reach the costs are kept low for very high capacity, then you buy what you need in central network capacity to whichever sites you require and can scale this up quickly.

Example: You could have several sites connected together, sharing files and network resources. Your telephony could also be linked over all the sites (VoIP based telephony systems) and you could have a consolidated network infrastructure. Then you could add Internet Access to the network centrally for security / monitoring and to finish off perhaps a centralised 'virtual' server from a connected datacentre.