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UK Grid is a tier 2 provider with a fully resilient multi-homed network and multiple connections to tier 1 providers in both London and Manchester. The resilience of its network allows UK Grid to reliably provide its customers with IP based services in all of the many data centre locations in the UK.
Please see below for futher details on the UK Grid's network architecture.
UK Grid operates as ASN 39757 and is a member of RIPE.
You can view our RIPE autnum record here
UK Grid uses four tier one providers in both London and Manchester.
Level3 is one of the largest IP Transit carriers in the world. The world's largest telecom carriers all use Level 3 services, as do the 10 largest U.S. Internet Service Providers, and the 10 largest European telecom carriers.
TINet has the best performing backbone in Europe and their TINet IP/MPLS backbone extends over 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.
Global Crossing offer some of the best routes out to the US and Europe and is one of the largest global carrier one's.
Cogent's end-to-end optical network consists of multiple metropolitan IP-over-WDM fiber rings located in Cogent's major markets throughout the United States and Europe. Cogent currently has a presence in over 100 markets throughout North America and Europe.
UK Grid has five core network POPs for site, city and hardware resilience:
Manchester - Synergy House, Telecity Williams/Kilburn and IFL
London - TelecityRedbus Harbour Exchange and Telehouse North
All POPs are highly resilient and scalable, consisting of high end Cisco routers in the network core and redundant layer 3 switches at the distribution layer. All edge switches providing the customer connections are dual connected to the distribution layer thus giving a highly fault tolerant network.
UK Grid maintains a low latency network by peering with many different organisations at multiple Internet Exchange Points and is currently a member of the following Internet Exchange Points:
To find our more about peering with UK Grid at one of the Exchange Points listed above click here
We take the uptime of our network seriously and use various tools to monitor it 24 x 7 x 365. We have network monitoring systems within our autonomous system that continuously poll our network and monitor various thresholds on our network devices. Also we have external probes that poll our network from outside of our autonomous system. All of these systems send alerts via different mechanisms to our network support team should any issues arise.
Click here for an overview diagram of our network topology.
If you are interested in colocating with The UK Grid Network LTD or require further information on colocation or our other offerings, please contact our team on +44 (0)845 260 4743