Farnborough – 1 November 2016 – Datum Datacentres today announced that two further communications and connectivity service providers have joined the ranks of connected carriers within its Farnborough facility.

Datum launched in 2012 to provide a robust co-location service for business critical IT, tailored to meet the requirements of security-conscious enterprises and service providers. Integral to the service is the ability to offer clients a broad choice of carriers in order that they can arrange appropriate levels of redundancy, flexibility and portability at the best price for their needs.

Matt MacCluney, Datum’s Sales Director, comments: “We are delighted to welcome these new carriers into Datum’s Farnborough data centre, further broadening available connectivity options. SSE Enterprise Telecoms in particular has ambitious expansion plans to bring their networking solutions to the most strategically placed facilities in the UK while Datum has an impressive client list from private and public sectors for whom security and resilience are imperative. The addition of these two carriers provides even greater choice in selecting the right providers for their business model.”

Managing Director, Dominic Phillips, adds: “Carrier neutrality and breadth of choice are essential to Datum offering of secure resilient co-location. Farnborough is particularly well catered for by comms carriers, and the breadth of choice on offer gives Datum clients access to resilience, service and latencies of less than a millisecond to the City – perfect for DR and business critical IT.”