Exponential-e PowerNGN

freethought · 23rd January 2008

Exponential-e are now offering 100Mbps Ethernet internet access in the UK via their "PowerNGN" service for only £800/month! :O Of course it will never come anywhere near us up here in the North...
http://www.exponential-e.com/powerngn.html

Ricky · 23rd January 2008

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freethought · 23rd January 2008

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Originally Posted by ServerCityUK

Colt are already cheaper on circuit only if you are on net.

Do you mean just a 100Mbps Ethernet circuit with no services (i.e just a point-to-point link) or the circuit+internet access?

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freethought · 23rd January 2008

That's the thing, Exponential-e's new PowerNGN thing includes 100Mbps internet access for their £800/month, that's what's so shocking

reactive-uk · 23rd January 2008

Any idea where the Exponential network extends to - theres no map on their site ?

freethought · 24th January 2008

Probably about 50m around their HQ, i.e. anywhere you can get a wireless signal ;-)

You mean like the one you get if you click "Our Next Gen Network" then "Network Map" :P
http://www.exponential-e.com/next_gen_reach.html

reactive-uk · 24th January 2008

Thats not a map, thats a pretty animation. I assume from it though their network, joking aside, doesn't extend beyond established data centres into the real world?

freethought · 24th January 2008

It's a map, it just leaves you guessing where the hell everything is
I was set there going "Is that Nottingham... no Sheffield... or maybe Leeds.. damnit!"
Looks like they go as far as the bigger DC and large cities. Not sure how big their metro networks are. Even if you get a fairly hefty install cost for running fibre from the nearest PoP, it should be evened out by the low monthly costs.

reactive-uk · 24th January 2008

So any guesses on the 3 towns between london and the south coast then?

freethought · 24th January 2008

Well, my UK geography gets pretty weak once I go south of Peterborough but I'm guessing Bristol (home of Fast Hosts), Portsmouth and Brighton in that order (I know there are DCs in the latter two but they're the smaller ones and I can't remember who)

Edit: ooops, completely miss-read your post. That was the three big dots in the south (obviously). Not sure for three in the little triangle.

Real-Hosts · 24th January 2008

From http://www.exponential-e.com/next_gen_reach_london.html I would guess one of the 'small' towns is Croydon? Isn't really that much between Croydon and the Coast...

Schumie · 24th January 2008

Looking like Southampton and Brighton based on the dodgy animation...

Provida · 24th January 2008

That network map will be somebody else's network, not their own (Global Crossing, Geo, etc).

From what I've read they're taking a hell of a gamble on this working out for them. I suspect that they don't have kit in any of those locations yet, but a viable business case may enable them to colocate their kit in one of those pops and rent the layer2 virtual circuit back to London from the network operator.

JamesSykes · 24th January 2008

These guys called me the other day.

They quoted me for a 100mb fibre circuit to EC1 with 5MB internet access and 10MB local circuit to terminate elsewhere in London for £600/month plus £4k installation. Don't know if this is their PowerNGN product or not but anyway....