Fibre

Quality dark fibre

The Surf Telecoms optical fibre network provides an ideal regional service for carriers, telecommunications service providers and mobile operators. Along the route, Surf has developed some 21 dark-fibre and carrier-bandwidth regenerator stations and strategic network PoPs, together with additional interconnect opportunities at WPD’s own communications sites. The network is 1,600 km, extending from above Cardiff in South Wales and down into the UK’s South West peninsula. It delivers 70,000 km of quality ITU-T G652 fibre and offers users 21 PoPs, four core rings and multiple, national-interconnects, together with landing-station access rings. The network extends from Cardiff and Bristol in the North, via Bridgwater, Taunton, Exeter, Newton Abbot, Plymouth and Redruth to Land’s End in the South. The return is via North Devon, Barnstaple, South Somerset and Bath. The route is installed on the power transmission lines of sister company, Western Power Distribution and in public highways. It includes cable and duct rings which extend access to most landing stations at Land’s End and Bude, as well as a considerable underground metro network throughout Cardiff. Surf Telecoms offers short and long-term, fibre leasing or IRUs over the cable routes. Most of these are independent of other network operations and have been chosen to pass through strategic PoPs and site locations where there are effective regeneration facilities, breakout and interconnection opportunities. The majority of Surf Telecoms network is deployed over our own core and local access fibre cables. The network offers ring topology, resilience and state of the art carrier class solutions. Fibre solution offers:
  • Core delivery over Surf’s own dedicated fibre network within SW UK and extended reach over third party networks to the other parts of England and Scotland
  • Quality ITU-T G652 optical fibre between existing Surf nodes within the South West and South Wales (subject to availability)
  • Many serviced existing and co-located carrier points of presence, regional ISPl Data Centre and Cable landing station connectivity
  • Management of the necessary services to provide a complete “turnkey” end to end solution