19 March 2025
Pulsant has announced significant upgrades to its Reading SE3 data centre network, enhancing hardware, bandwidth, connectivity, and overall platform capabilities to accommodate high-capacity requirements, particularly for AI workloads.
This investment extends Pulsant's partnership with Zayo Europe, integrating their high-speed optical backbone into the Reading SE3 facility. The upgrade features one route heading west and two diverse low-latency routes east towards London, enabling regional businesses to access 400Gb capacity directly throughout the UK without needing to backhaul through London. Zayo Europe’s infrastructure is designed to be 400Gb enabled and is future-ready for 800Gb solutions, ensuring businesses can meet the growing demands of AI and data processing.
Pulsant’s platformEDGE™ offering provides a wide array of geographically diverse data centres across the UK. It includes a private, high-speed, resilient network that connects twelve regional colocation facilities directly. This network then links to the Internet, accessing over 500 partners within Pulsant’s connectivity ecosystem, which includes global carriers, peering exchanges, and Zayo Europe’s global network.
“Making digital infrastructure available to regional UK businesses improves competitiveness and helps cut costs. This upgrade brings the Reading SE3 facility onto a national interconnection fabric, delivering low-latency, high-speed access to the full range of Pulsant’s platformEDGE™ infrastructure, ecosystem services, and partners. We have more than a hundred clients in Reading SE3, and they will now be able to interconnect directly with all other Pulsant data centres, as well as LINX, AMSIX, and Megaport services, without having to route via London carrier hotels,” said Mike Hoy, CTO of Pulsant.
Hoy further emphasized that Pulsant is committed to investing in digital infrastructure that enables businesses to leverage opportunities presented by AI and other data-intensive capabilities. By providing resilient, low-latency connectivity and ensuring sovereign data processing, Pulsant aims to secure the performance and security of future AI applications, underscoring the importance of high-performance connectivity for regional businesses in the UK’s competitive landscape.
“Businesses across the UK and Europe are accelerating their adoption of AI, automation, and cloud-driven workloads. Predictions indicate that approximately two-thirds of network traffic will involve AI by 2030, creating an increasing demand for low-latency, high-speed, and scalable connectivity. By expanding our 400Gb network reach, we are ensuring that enterprises and data centres have the robust, future-proof infrastructure they need to thrive in an AI-powered economy,” said Matt Williams, Head of Data Centre & Managed Service Partnerships at Zayo Europe.
