Interoute provides unified ICT infrastructure services delivered from a secure networking platform as a virtual private cloud. Their approach aims to simplify infrastructure delivery and management to make it flexible and cost-effective for customers. They offer unified connectivity, communications, and computing services integrated on their pan-European fiber network spanning 29 countries. Customers and analysts praise Interoute for their competitive prices, strong performance, and ability to meet business needs flexibly.

1. Introduction to Interoute

2. OUR APPROACH: UNIFIED ICT
Reducing your total cost of ownership, increasing your flexibility and
maximising your ICT performance.
Having the right ICT infrastructure is vital to your business. You need a provider that gives you the most
secure, flexible and cost effective solution possible, one that meets your needs today but can be changed
easily and economically as your business changes. Interoute is that provider.
We call this approach Unified ICT: creating and managing all Enterprise ICT infrastructure as a service,
delivered from a secure networking platform. A virtual private cloud designed around your business, and
all your services integrated into a single solution.
The goal is to simplify the delivery and management of your ICT infrastructure and make it so flexible that
you can change it as often as you need to, easily and cost effectively. It’s an approach which recognises
that few enterprises, if any, will move to a fully outsourced model in one go. Rather, we allow customers
to move towards it one service at a time, each one integrated with the last, at a pace which suits their
business, altering the current solution continually as their business changes over time.
Supporting the concept of Unified ICT are three related ideas: Unified Connectivity, Unified
Communications and Unified Computing.
Unified Connectivity: Connecting your people, buildings and data to the Interoute cloud, in whatever way
suits your business. Unified Connectivity is a revolutionary approach to networking services, allowing you
to combine self‐managed IT infrastructure with outsourced managed WAN in the same solution.
Unified Communications: Real time services, either stand‐alone or integrated with Connectivity. The key
offering in this portfolio is a secure, business quality VoIP solution with easy integration to your existing
voice infrastructure delivered over a single, high capacity communications platform.
Unified Computing: Hosting your computing infrastructure in a secure and resilient environment, and
supporting them with professional services as necessary. Interoute Unified Computing offers a range of
management options from you being in full control, through to Interoute taking full responsibility.
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3. OUR NETWORK
Interoute owns the largest pan‐
European lit‐fibre Next Generation
Network, covering the majority of
Europe, from London to Warsaw,
from Stockholm to Sicily and be‐
yond into the emerging economies
of South Eastern Europe. The net‐
work is also linked to North Amer‐
ica's major telecoms hubs through
our transatlantic capacity, and we
serve as a bridge between Europe,
North Africa and the Middle East,
with a fully operational Point of
Presence in the Arab world's most
dynamic international hub, Dubai.
Our network connects 100 cities in 29 countries and includes 21 dense city networks (MANs) located in
Europe's major business centres and eight sub sea landing stations. Additionally, we have over 100,000m²
of space in 8 Data Centres and 32 collocation centres. More than €1 billion in e‐commerce transactions
flows through our data centres each day.
Interoute also connects Europe to the world through our extensive third party carrier agreements. We
currently have over 100 carrier agreements in place and supply CPE
(Customer Premise Equipment) on a global basis.
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4. OUR UNIFIED SERVICE PORTFOLIO
Unified Connectivity Unified Computing
Bandwidth: Supplying SDH, Wavelengths and Hosting: Enabling your business‐critical systems to
Ethernet connectivity options available across our be outsourced in a securely managed physical or
entire network footprint and beyond. And with virtual environment. And Colocation gives you a
Fast Trade low latency is guaranteed. flexible alternative to housing your systems
internally.
Internet: Providing high performance, high
availability, and scalable access to the Internet at Unified Communications
port speeds from 64kbps to 10Gbps. Voice: Powerful, yet simple and secure business
quality Voice over IP solution with easy
Media: Fully hosted and managed high integration to Microsoft Office Communications
performance streaming and download services Server 2007 R2 .
that guarantee the secure transmission of
material, piracy‐free.
Infrastructure
Putting you in full control of your network, our
VPN: Delivering an efficient, scaleable and
Dark Fibre and Colocation provides you with the
reliable way of connecting your sites together, no
flexibility of choice over
matter where they are located, by using a secure,
the service platforms
dedicated MPLS network with many connectivity
you deploy.
options such as 3G, Ethernet and DSL.
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5. SO WHY CHOOSE INTEROUTE?
We could list all the reasons why we think we are the best choice, but we believe that this ques‐
tion should be answered by letting our customers and the leading Industry Analysts speak for
themselves.
“Interoute, a strong per‐ “Interoute’s pan‐European optical
former…. an innovative alter‐ network guarantees high speed
native supplier with keen prices. It has a strong and quality connectivity for any type of content
Ethernet access portfolio in 24 countries, including and almost endless scalability.”
10 Gbps access in 11 countries. Its VPN service Valter Ferraro, Business Systems Manager at
offers near‐best‐in‐class pricing and strong SLAs… Ford
Companies should consider using Interoute as part
of a multi‐sourcing strategy.” Forrester 2008
“Interoute One for Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 is the
“. . . one of the best value future. Our expectation is that we will
providers selling high‐ save at least a minimum of 20% on our
performance bandwidth at low cost to carriers telephony costs but I think it will be much more.”
and system integrators. The operator owns and Peter van Wingerden, CEO at DQ&A
operates its network down to the ducts.” Current
Analysis 2008
“We are a professional and
innovative company that
“Interoute has an extensive actively looks to the future
fibre network, both inter‐city when developing and producing durable house‐
and metropolitan, in western and eastern Europe. hold goods. Interoute has shown that it can take
The backbone has been upgraded to multiple 10G into account our need for support with our time‐
Ethernet. Service portfolio and delivery strength‐ critical business applications. That is one of the
ened including WAN optimization solutions and reasons why we opted for Interoute when select‐
further enhancements to self‐service automation ing a network operator." Robert Borst, ICT Man‐
in areas such as delivery and configuration. Strong ager at Brabantia
processes for developing service components and
an extensive component library enables wide
range of custom‐made network‐centric solutions.”
Gartner 2009 "Because of Interoute’s large geo‐
graphical footprint and extensive
package of services, Interoute will
be able to quickly grow with our changing needs.
“Interoute is an innovative European They offer us the option to provide our stores
operator intent on growing new busi‐ with new services such as Internet telephony and
ness opportunities by building on its live video streams." Hans van Breen, Manager
reputation for quality, responsiveness and secu‐ Operational Services at WE
rity.” Ovum 2009
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