Global TeleSystems

We operate the largest pan-European network in existence. It's an entirely GTS backbone. It consists of 17,000 miles of lit fiber and a second fiber that's being lit. In every city pair, we will have a full terabit capacity on two fibers. Because we have a mesh network, we will enter each city at 3 or 4 locations (5 in Paris, or 5 terabits of capac... ity serving Paris). That's lit capacity, not a promise of a build. We serve over 30 cities today. We've announced four new data centers in addition to the one that we just acquired with the acquisition of the ISP Netcom in the UK. They have an 8,000sf facility that's almost full. We have end-to-end connectivity in the five city enterprise networks that are operating, and we'll be in 16 by the end of the year. In the cities we are bringing our network down to the customer where the customer lives. Those are loops that have 150 fibers each capable of carrying 2.5gigabits throughout the city. Finally, we have the FLAG FA-1, a 2.4 terabit transatlantic fiber with two fibers. It's one of the leading capabilities that will be operational this time next year. Our e-bone is the leading tier one European ISP. We interconnect our traffic at the IP space at an optically switched base. We are merging the entire switch base and optimizing the network as we go forward. That will be completed in the next 4-6 months. That represents a very important transition of 46 switches into a physical facility that can deal with the transmission of voice traffic and with traffic on the broadest band and highest usage backbone that exists in Europe. Because there are six companies digging trenches all over Europe, we thought it was time to expand our capacity on a parallel basis. We will acquire duct and fiber on that duct to serve the six major cities of Europe where most of the traffic is. We have 25% market share of European e-bone, and 350% volume growth between 3rd and 4th quarter. There were 113 ISP's connected at the end of the year in 21 countries. We have a premier pairing ...Read More