Neos Networks and Zen Internet have expanded their longstanding partnership with a major upgrade to 400Gbps connectivity between Manchester and London.
This advanced corridor is designed to support the UK’s growing bandwidth requirements as data centre investment, AI adoption and full fibre rollout increase across the nation.
Delivered over Neos Networks’ nationwide fibre network, this strategic upgrade ensures Zen’s core network is ready for the future. Beyond the Manchester to London link, Zen also continues to make use of Neos’s upgraded core and exchange-backhaul services, which are critical for delivering ultrafast, resilient connectivity. Together, these investments support Zen’s mission to make high-quality fibre more widely available to UK businesses and consumers.
“Our long-standing partnership with Zen Internet highlights the vital role of advanced fibre infrastructure when it comes to meeting the UK’s AI ambitions,” said David Bruce, CRO at Neos Networks. “Zen’s mission to become the country’s leading altnet aggregator is well aligned with the breadth, quality and reliability of our backbone networks, and by working together, we’re ensuring an ecosystem that will ultimately benefit the UK as a whole.”
Earlier this year, Zen launched its Fibre Hub to further enhance access to nationwide connectivity by aggregating services from the UK’s leading alternative networks. This ongoing partnership with Neos is an important step towards this goal, allowing Zen to offer greater choice and fast speeds as both customer needs and technology evolve.
“In Neos we have a partner that not only delivers robust, high-capacity network solutions, but also real agility and collaboration, helping us deliver for our end users,” said John Lyons, technical director at Zen Internet. “Our collaboration is built on open communication, rapid provisioning, and shared engineering standards like equipment duplication, diverse routing and true east-west redundancy. This approach means we can rely on Neos to deliver a network that consistently meets the high standards our customers expect”.