National Grid Telecoms

The ideal optical fibre network built to provide a regional service

66 dark-fibre and carrier-bandwidth regenerator stations
Strategic network PoPs
Additional interconnect opportunities at National Grid’s own communications sites
2,350km optical fibre extending from the East Midlands down to the South West Peninsula in the UK
70,000 km of quality ITU-T G652 fibre
66 PoPs, multiple core rings and several national-interconnects, together with landing-station access rings

Short and long term or IRUs over the cable routes
Mostly independent of other network operations
Strategic PoPs and site locations where there are effective regeneration facilities, breakout and interconnection opportunities
The majority of National Grid Telecoms network is deployed over our own core and local access fibre cables
The network offers ring topology, resilience and carrier class solutions.

Core delivery over National Grid Telecom’s own dedicated fibre network in England and Wales.
Quality ITU-T G652 optical fibre between existing National Grid Telecoms nodes within the South West and South Wales (subject to availability)
Many serviced existing and co-located carrier points of presence, regional ISP, Data Centre and Cable landing station connectivity
Management of the necessary services to provide a complete “turnkey” end to end solution

Connection Type	Desktop Quote Time from Enquiry (Working days)	Survey Quote Time from Enquiry (Working days)	RFS Time from Order (Working days)	Availability Standard (% pa)	Availability Protected (% pa)	Fault Response (Hours)	Target Fix Time (Hours)
Dark Fibre Lease - Underground	5 working days with exemptions applied	8	30-45			4	12
Dark Fibre Lease - Overhead	5 working days with exemptions applied	8	30-45			4	18