By Peter Judge, 31 October 2002 12:45
NEWS Businesses in South Wales, Devon and Cornwall are set to get Ethernet over fibre, thanks to power companies. Surf Telecoms, the telecoms division of utility firm Western Power Distribution, is offering broadband to businesses in the south west of Britain thanks to a deal with Neos, a national optical network, as well as using Surf's own fibre network. The connections, which will go up to 10Gbps, will be run over Ethernet technology, not the DSL which mass broadband roll-out to domestic users depends on. Surf's network will be based on Cisco's metropolitan Ethernet products. Steve Blew, sales and marketing director at Surf Telecoms, said: "Ethernet provides our customers with the high bandwidth they need, yet gives them more flexibility than traditional leased-lined connections. It lets them pay only for the bandwidth they use, yet increase their available capacity quickly to cope with unexpected demand." Ethernet will be offered alongside Surf's existing SDH fibre optic services. Surf Telecoms' 1,400km fibre network is run along power cables as a separate cable or wrapped around the earth wire, a much cheaper option than laying fresh underground cables. Peter Judge writes for ZDNet.co.uk
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