22 December 2014

C4L is offering free WiFi access across its network of 100 data centres' points-of-presence (PoPs) in the UK. The company says users can connect to their WiFi and surf the internet "free with no restrictions regardless of device type". 

C4L is based in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, where it has its own data centre and its own 100Gb fibre-optic network, built with equipment from companies such as Juniper and Cisco. 

C4L says its free-to-access WiFi will assist engineers verify that their colocated servers can be accessed outside of their network.

Most of the C4L PoP sites have been activated, including City Lifeline, Telehouse and DRT, and almost 1,000 devices have already been connected, says the company. 

Agodo Dumbe, installation technician at C4L, says: “We are really happy to have been able to deploy free public WiFi in our PoP’s across the UK, we recognised the need for this service based on our own experience, which taught us that network engineers can really benefit from a separate internet connection within a DC, and we wanted to provide this service to all professionals within the industry.

"The Internet connection is isolated from the main infrastructure, so is does not affect any security within the Data Centre environment, and really helps out Data Centre and Network engineers who are working in our DC environments.”