Digital infrastructure leader Pulsant today announced upgrades to its Reading SE3 data centre network with refreshed hardware, increased bandwidth, enhanced connectivity and an improved platform to support high capacity requirements, including AI workloads.
The investment extends Pulsant’s and Zayo Europe’s optical backbone into Reading SE3, with one route heading west and two diverse low latency routes east into London. This means regional businesses can now access 400Gb capacity to locations across the UK without having to back haul via London. Zayo Europe's high-speed optical backbone is 400Gb enabled and future-ready for 800Gb, ensuring businesses stay ahead of increasing AI and data demands.
Pulsant’s platformEDGE™ offering incorporates the most geographically diverse array of data centres in the UK, with a private, high-speed, resilient network that connects twelve regional colocation facilities directly. This network then connects to the Internet, to over 500 partners in Pulsant’s connectivity ecosystem, including global carriers, peering exchanges and access to Zayo Europe’s global network.
“Making digital infrastructure available to regional UK businesses improves competitiveness and helps cut costs,” said Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant. “This upgrade brings the Reading SE3 facility onto a national interconnection fabric, delivering low-latency, high-speed access to the full range of Pulsant’s platformEDGE™ infrastructure platform, ecosystem services and partners. We have more than a hundred clients in Reading SE3, and they will now be able to interconnect directly with all other Pulsant data centres, as well as LINX, AMSIX and Megaport services, without having to route via London carrier hotels.”
Hoy continued: “Pulsant is investing in our digital infrastructure to help businesses capitalise on the opportunities of AI and other data-intensive capabilities. By providing low latency resilient connectivity and sovereign data processing, Pulsant is ensuring future AI applications’ security and performance. Availability of high-performance connectivity to regional businesses remains key to the UK’s future competitiveness.”
Matt Williams, Head of Data Centre & Managed Service Partnerships at Zayo Europe, said, “Businesses across the UK and Europe are accelerating their adoption of AI, automation, and cloud-driven workloads. Predictions are indicating that approximately two-thirds of network traffic will involve AI by 2030, placing an increasing demand on low-latency, high-speed, and scalable connectivity. By expanding our 400Gb network reach, we are ensuring enterprises and data centres have the robust, future-proofed infrastructure they need to thrive in an AI-powered economy.”
