Carriers
Carriers – carrying a heavy load
Carriers operating in the UK communications market at both metro and national levels are turning to dark fibre to support their wholesale offer to customers with greater network diversity.
The UK is one of the most open and exciting telecoms sectors in Europe, serving as both a crucial hub for continental and global traffic, while still being a major domestic market in its own right.
But it’s a market set for consolidation, believe analysts, and it’s only those carriers offering the most diverse, most resilient and most flexible network services that will survive.
Hunger for diversity
This hunger for diversity means that carriers are in the market for networks that avoid the usual routes of running alongside road and rail links, or using the same ducts as suppliers of other network services.
The competitive environment carriers operate in makes flexibility another key driver for carriers looking for a back up network solution. Not all the sources they have traditionally turned to for capacity can deliver the flexibility they need.
Their requirements are for a relationship that lets them choose whether to purchase pure bandwidth or a fully managed service. Depending on their business model and level of in-house expertise, carriers might either opt for the white label network route, or one backed by an experienced third party at either end of the connection.
The winners in tomorrow’s carrier market will surely be those planning for the highest level of demand, and meeting that demand with dedicated fibre.
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