Zen expands network to stay ahead of broadband service demands

Zen have announced the introduction of a new Point of Presence in Leeds as part of its core network infrastructure.

The new site will improve the resilience of the network as Zen does not rely on one Point of Presence.  An outage at one of them would not knock out the entire network.  BT is also installing new Central Pipes in June which also allows for further bandwidth throughput. 

These will both help Zen to cope with any increase in customer bandwidth and service demands often required with the new generation of services and media rich content available on the Internet.

“A major benefit of the Leeds site is that it is close enough to existing Zen sites in Rochdale and Manchester to allow dark fibre links directly between sites, leading to virtually unlimited bandwidth growth. With this extra network link there is also a physically separate network route to London, other than our HQ and Manchester links. If there was ever a regional power failure, Leeds is far enough away not to be affected, providing us with additional cover in the UK. We have also invested in new network equipment at Leeds which has the capability to be expanded to handle these huge bandwidths in a scalable fashion.” - David Wylie, Principal Engineer at Zen Internet

Although not one of the cheapest broadband providers, Zen has earned a good reputation for quality of service alongside well regarded customer support and has won several awards over the past few years.