Easynet Connect was a UK-based
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...
. The Easynet Connect brand was founded on 7 January 2008 to focus on small-to-medium size companies with 11-249 employees. Easynet Connect’s core focus was as a business ISP, providing
Internet access connectivity,
colocation services and hybrid
cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...
services to small businesses and resellers in the UK. It was headquartered in London, with customer service and hosting centres in London and Somerset.
Easynet Connect was the sister company of
Easynet Global Services, a network, hosting and cloud integration business servicing enterprises.
Easynet (including Easynet Connect) was acquired by
British Sky Broadcasting
Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television and broadband Internet services, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of ...
in 2006.
On 21 July 2010, British Sky Broadcasting reached an agreement over the proposed sale of Easynet Global Services, to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), a leading UK private equity company fully funded by the Lloyds Banking Group.
On 21 July 2010, British Sky Broadcasting reached an agreement over the proposed sale of Easynet, to Lloyds Development Capital (LDC), a leading UK private equity company fully funded by the Lloyds Banking Group.
In December 2013 the company was acquired by
MDNX Group, one of the UK's largest independent carrier integrators. Both Easynet Global Services and Easynet Connect were combined with MDNX existing brands to form a single organisation which now trades as Easynet. The acquisition was backed by Equistone Partners Europe Limited, one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity managers, who hold a majority stake in the organisation. LDC has reinvested in the organisation to acquire a minority stake alongside the MDNX management.
Network
Easynet marketed
local loop unbundling
Local loop unbundling (LLU or LLUB) is the regulatory process of allowing multiple telecommunications operators to use connections from the telephone exchange to the customer's premises. The physical wire connection between the local exchange and ...
(LLU) in the UK in 2001, and was the first to challenge
BT in the wholesale broadband market when it announced its 8 Mbit/s service in 2004. The company claimed the 2nd largest core network in the UK (6,030 km of fibre in 2009),
[http://www.easynetconnect.net/About-Us.aspx Easynet Connect, April 2009] while the majority of its services are delivered via copper connections in the
last mile.
Easynet marketed bonded DSL in the UK and was the first UK ISP to offer bonded
FTTC
Fiber to the ''x'' (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic ...
(also known as VDSL) which it markets as EtherStream V. Country-wide coverage of EtherStream V is currently limited to areas where FTTC is available but can deliver broadband speeds of up to 320 Mbit/s downstream and up to 80 Mbit/s upstream.
References
External links
Official website
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Internet service providers of the United Kingdom