Colt: The World-Class Network and Communications Services Provider

Simple, reliable and secure cloud connectivity.

Colt is the New Standard in high bandwidth network and voice services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia, and North America’s largest business hubs. With a global reach but a deep local presence, Colt is big enough to deliver and small enough to care.

Colt enables the digital transformation of businesses through its intelligent, purpose-built, cloud-integrated network, known as the Colt IQ Network. It connects over 850+ data centers around the globe, with over 27,500 on-net buildings and growing. Colt is also recognized as an innovator and pioneer in software-defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).

The company delivers a consistent and predictable experience between Europe, Asia, and North America over a common platform and technology, allowing businesses to address the challenges digitization brings, by focusing on their business priorities, and accessing new and emerging markets.

You can rely on Colt because It has been specialists in network and voice services for mid-to-large sized organizations and data-intensive businesses for over two decades. The company also specializes in improving performance for Capital Markets customers on a global scale.

Wherever you go, your network infrastructure will follow with the right fit commercials, management and service levels. You choose how your services are consumed, delivered and managed.

Sneak Peek at the Services Offered

Optical Network Services

The company’s Optical Network Services Portfolio provides the highest levels of network performance for backbone connections, inter-data center connectivity, and high bandwidth requirements.

With Colt Optical Wavelength Service, Private Optical Network, Long Haul Fibre Optic Network, and Dark Fibre Network, Colt provides customers with the scalable, cost-efficient and high-performance solutions for their capacity needs.

Colt’s high bandwidth optical network services portfolio directly addresses the requirements of enterprises, carrier operators and OTT players requiring connectivity between major sites and data centers. Colt’s IQ Network covers metro, long-haul, and international, including subsea, spanning across Asia, Europe, and North America, with service bandwidths from 1Gbps to above 200Gbps.

All of Colt’s optical network services, given their inherent deterministic nature, can be provided on defined network routes and fiber paths with varied options for diversity, service redundancy, and resilience. Get the highest levels of network performance from Colt’s Optical Network Services.

Wave: Fully managed, high quality end-to-end transparent data transmission service operating at speeds of up to several 100G’s.

Private Wave: Secure, flexible and high performance private optical networking built on customer-dedicated WDM equipment and fiber infrastructure.

Spectrum: Providing ultra-high bandwidth connectivity, Colt Spectrum delivers the flexibility and control of a long-haul fiber network, without the overheads of Dark Fibre.

Dark Fibre: Colt’s dark fiber network is the most extensive and reliable in Europe. We cover 51 metropolitan areas which are interconnected by our 38,000km network.

Global Ethernet Services

Colt’s award-winning, global Ethernet services give you the ability to seamlessly interconnect your business, so you can become more responsive to new challenges and opportunities.

Whether you are a major enterprise, carrier, SME, operator, or require a business-class connectivity solution, we guarantee performance and high bandwidth, so all your sites can work together and exchange information effectively and securely.

With Colt, you can be sure there’s an Ethernet service that fits the needs of your business. Colt’s comprehensive portfolio provides a point-to-point managed Ethernet Line service, Ethernet Hub and Spoke wan services, business Ethernet VPN and even dedicated infrastructure with Private Ethernet. Our managed Ethernet services are fast to deploy, cost-effective, and ultra-fast at speeds from 10Mbps to 100Gbps. With the Colt Ethernet services, you only rely on one partner and a single Service Level Agreement with 24/7 proactive management and performance monitoring.

The Colt Ethernet services portfolio enables you to create wide area networks (WANs) or metropolitan area networks (MAN) with a LAN interface, and is scalable in bandwidth, allowing the quick and easy addition of sites thanks to our extensive coverage in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. This means that you save in regards to customer premise equipment (CPE) and simplifying your Enterprise network management.

Ethernet Line: Cost effective, secure and easy to manage Ethernet connection between two locations.

Ethernet Hub & Spoke: A cost-effective and flexible way of connecting a large number of sites to a head office, data center or carrier hotel (point to multi-point service)

Ethernet VPN: Colt Ethernet VPN is ideal for connecting a distributed set of business sites that need to communicate regularly and transparently with each other.

Private Ethernet: Private Ethernet is a high bandwidth layer 2 point to point service, delivered over dedicated fiber which provides maximum security.

Business Internet & VPN Services

Colt’s business internet & VPN services provide you with high-speed internet and network connectivity so you don’t have to comprise.

IP Access: Colt IP Access is a high-speed business internet service, supported by our award-winning global network fully owned and managed by Colt.

SD WAN: Colt is leveraging an intelligent SD WAN platform to manage which data goes over the internet versus which data stays on private networks.

IP VPN: Colt’s business VPN means you don’t have to compromise; do business over a secure private network while getting the cost-saving benefits of a shared global network.

DDOS Protection: 24/7 internet security solutions; from managed firewalls to DDoS protection.

Colt’s Business Internet Access provides you with a high performance and highly reliable premium service specifically designed for business customers. Colt IP Access is based on the Colt owned truly global fiber network and IP infrastructure. It’s a perfect basis for today’s demanding business applications from providing content and using cloud services to Voice/Video over IP. In addition, Colt offers a wide range of options and add-ons to tailor the solution to your needs. Available add-ons include security services as well as various options to increase the availability of the service even more. Colt’s business class support is available 24/7 and it offers sophisticated reporting and notification options.

Colt’s Colt Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) service offers an automated and fresh approach towards deploying and managing Enterprise grade connectivity and managing costs, It gives Customers the ability to combine multiple access connections types (MPLS, Internet, 3G/4G) with application-based policy forwarding and advanced security functions. Colt SD-WAN incorporates software-defined networking (SDN) into an application that Customers can use to quickly create and deploy a network that offers services like business-grade IP VPN, secure broadband Internet or application-aware routing with full security and QoS over WAN connections. Traffic can be automatically and dynamically (manually) forwarded across the most appropriate WAN path based on network conditions, quality-of-service (QoS) requirements, usage requirements, and cost. This combined feature set offers higher network service availability and increased network performance. In addition, SD-WAN allows Customers to optimize the use of their bandwidth through load balancing over multiple Internet uplinks over broadband, 3G/4G (with an Ethernet handoff) in addition to traditional MPLS connections.

Colt IP VPN is an IP-based virtual private network (VPN) service that provides customers with the security expected of a private network, while at the same time offering significant benefits of a shared network in terms of cost and optimal connectivity. Any-to-any connectivity of sites, regardless of their sizes, into a customer’s network can be achieved easily, efficiently and securely, whether these sites are located within a single country or at diverse locations around the world. Class of Service (CoS) options ensure that customer traffic can be prioritized so that data streams with stringent requirements such as voice and video take precedence. In addition, remote access options give customers the flexibility to connect staff members who are on the move or working from home. With Colt’s IP VPN, other than the remote access options that are delivered using secure tunnels over the public Internet, all sites are connected using a private network and do not traverse the public Internet. Colt’s ability to provide end-to-end managed networks ensures that we can offer customers a high quality, a cost-effective solution backed by comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs) and award-winning customer service.

The company’s DDoS protection services protect your Internet-based applications and services from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Its service filters DDoS attacks within seconds and without the necessity for human intervention while enabling the flow of legitimate traffic. It effectively blocks threats such as high-volume flood attacks, stealthy application-layer attacks and attacks hidden in SSL packets. Colt implements the DDoS protection directly in the network, so no rerouting or tunneling or specific IPs required and keeps your services up 24x7.

Colt’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Colt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) believes investing in the future is what matters. Delivering business results in a responsible way to its customers, whilst sustainably applying its technology and expertise is key. With charity partners in every Colt country, the company encourages its colleagues to volunteer and support local initiatives taking responsibility for the impact its business has on wider society.

Colt approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involves sharing ideas with colleagues and customers which results in activities that have a positive impact beyond its daily business activities, both internally and externally. Colt’s CSR activity is based on 4 key pillars: Colleagues; Customers, Community and Charity.

Clientele Testimonies

“The overall evaluation of the service received by Colt is positive in two ways: first, due to the technical quality of the product in terms of its strength, consistency, and security, and second, in terms of the advice and assistance received during both the pre- and post-sales stages.”

- Javier Bartolomé, Technology Director, IMSolutions

“Colt had a good approach from the beginning. We had a very aggressive schedule; they listened very carefully to our requirements and proposed a solution that really covered our needs.”

- Director of Technology, HIT Tomato

“Colt has a variety of services to choose from and the versatility to provision a network that fits our requirements. Colt’s IQ Network enables our IT Management Unit to provide our users with a hassle-free system environment while streamlining our processes and optimizing costs. We’re very satisfied with what Colt has helped us achieve.”

• Daisuke Ishino, Corporate ICT Section, IT Management Unit, Chiyoda Corporation

Greet the Brilliant Mind

Carl Grivner, CEO: Carl Grivner was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Colt in January 2016. He joined Colt having spent 3 years in Singapore as CEO at Pacnet, directing the global strategy of one of Asia’s leading end-to-end communications service providers.

Prior to that, Carl was CEO of XO Communications, a US network provider, for eight years where he played a key role in transforming the business from a local exchange carrier to a national carrier.

Carl has held several executive level positions in the telecommunications and information technology industry including Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Wireless plc (Western Hemisphere) where he headed the North American operations. He also held various senior management positions in Ameritech and IBM.

He brings over 25 years of international executive and leadership experience including 12 years’ operating at the level of Chief Executive Officer at major telecommunications companies in North and Central America, Europe and Asia.

“At Colt, we’re proud of the customer experience (CX) we offer and continually working to improve this is something we take seriously.”