So why launch now and not when everything's hot to trot? "There's pent-up demand for high-bandwidth services, especially for US-Asia, as well as US-Europe -- customers have been asking us to do this," he claims, adding that Colt has about 40 sales staff in the US that have been tapping up the market for some time already.
Grivner says now is a good time to be putting a fresh, alternative offer in front of large enterprise users. "Many companies are going through a transition right now, migrating to the cloud, and they are looking for an alternative" communications service provider. Others will fight hard to hold the prime customer relationship, he admits, but "none of the others have the network reach and quality that we have," boasts the CEO, who says Colt's next move in the US is to connect to more data centers across the country (it's hooked up to about 30 at the moment).
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This is from May 2015 but I think it might be relevant:
“We are pleased the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network is powering Colt’s European Supercore network extending the benefits of LDN services between the key European cities,” said Chris Champion, senior vice president, EMEA. “Infinera is committed to continuing to provide Colt with a solution that automates, converges and simplifies its optical transport network to reliably deliver advanced services to its customers.”
This is also going to put some pressure on CTL to open the wallet- |
