The most common Openreach products used to serve new data centre related requirements are:
Product |
Typical use |
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Ethernet Access Direct (EAD) |
Used mainly to connect customer sites to data centres or network access points to data centres. |
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Optical Spectrum Access (OSA) |
As above but where greater bandwidth is required, and also between data centres to provide resilient services. |
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Optical Spectrum Extended Access (OSEA) |
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All these products are capable of delivering multiple high bandwidth connections from a data centre to either another data centre or to an end customer. They are delivered over a reliable fibre network with optionalResilience and most are IL2 assured - making them suitable to be used for Her Majesty's Government (HMG) network contracts at the 'PROTECT' level. (N.B. OSEA is currently being assessed for IL2).
