Interoute Telecommunications (Archived)

Synopsis

Interoute is a privately owned pan-European telecommunications group. It offers a range of communication services to business customers, residential users and other carriers, operates its own international network with major switches in London and New York and continues to build national networks in selected countries. It has full operating licences and interconnect agreements in most major European countries. Interoute’s i-21 network is the largest in Europe today. Products and services include bandwidth, VPNs, high-speed internet access and transit, managed hosting, communications services and media streaming. Alcatel forced Interoute into liquidation in November 2002, but the company emerged from liquidation two weeks later following agreement with Alcatel.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Company information
  • 2.1 History
• 3. Temporary liquidation – December 2002
• 4. Services
  • 4.1 Bandwidth
    • 4.1.1 SDH
    • 4.1.2 Wavelengths
    • 4.1.3 Dark fibre
    • 4.1.4 Metropolitan access networks
    • 4.1.5 Co-location
  • 4.2 Virtual private networks
  • 4.3 Internet services
  • 4.4 Communications services
• 5. Networks
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 i-21
  • 5.3 Voice network
• 6. Contact details
• 7. Related reports

• Exhibit 1 – Interoute at a glance