It Starts With A Cable
Cable&Wireless Worldwide owns the UK's biggest fibre network dedicated to business users of telecommunications and has an international cable network spanning approximately 425,000km in length. It reaches across the Atlantic Ocean, through Europe and on to India and throughout Asia. In conjunction with satellite, we connect every continent and more than 150 countries, either directly or indirectly through our business partners.
Cable laying never stops. We are part of a consortium laying the West Africa Cable System (WACS) that will provide the first ever submarine connections to Namibia and other parts of West Africa. This has the dual function of providing network access to new places and strengthening the reliability, or resilience, of existing networks by providing alternative transmission routes if another part of the network goes down.
Our goal is that each core location will have three physically diverse routes to other parts of the network, ensuring the best levels of service availability.
Organisations today rely more and more on computer networks; whether it’s a small business having its own private network (a LAN or Local area Network) to link ups its PCs, share a printer and access the internet, or a global business using its own network (a Wide Area Network or WAN) for international calls, hosting its own intranet or sharing any number of other applications across different countries.
We provide the bigger bandwidths and complex business applications that customers increasingly want computer networking to provide. Although individuals want to use mobile and wi-fi devices, when it comes to the underlying networks and technology that underpin those devices, only cable can deliver what’s needed.
