Dorset based Internet service providers, Juice Broadband and Datacenta Hosting, have teamed up in the first steps to keeping local Internet traffic between their customers within the county.
With the impact of Covid-19 has led to a huge rise in working from home, the two local suppliers are looking to the future of how internet traffic travels around the country. Whilst for the most part the networks have coped and companies like Netflix have helped by reducing their streaming demands on data usage, the country needs to look at being more digitally resilient for the future.
This is one of many network peering arrangements being agreed with like-minded providers in Dorset. It means data doesn’t have to go all the way to London exchanges and back, to simply get across Dorset. It will also be key in the expansion of 5G services and applications where the importance of latency – the time it takes to connect, and the response speeds outweigh the importance of throughput speeds.
Wayne Simpson, Managing Director of Juice Broadband commented “We welcome this collaboration with Datacenta, where we can now exchange between our networks. As a local internet service provider, over the past 10 years we have built and invested in a local network ring which connects our Bournemouth and Poole network and datacenters to our London POP, not only does this bring resilience to our network it also means that our customer traffic that is destined for a local destination, be it a homeworker connecting to their office VPN, streaming, or website, stays local meaning business and residential customers benefit with greater reliability and lower latency.”
Gordon Fong, Managing Director of Datacenta Hosting commented “We are in a position where businesses that could be viewed as competitors are working together with a longer-term strategic goal in mind. A greatly enhanced digital infrastructure that spans across Dorset is a benefit to all. There is more of this cooperation to come.”