High-Performance IP Transit
Scalable BGP Connectivity Across the UK and Europe
Global IP Transit
Low-Latency, Carrier-Grade Connectivity
Support for IPv4 and IPv6, available in both dual-stack and non-dual-stack configurations.
We provide the full Internet routing table by default, as well as partial routing options that include all of our bilateral peering relationships with ISPs, network service providers, and content providers across the UK and Europe. Where required, we can also announce a single default route to your BGP capable device.
We support both static routing and BGP. If your equipment does not support BGP, we can statically route your prefixes as required.
We operate a low-latency, high-speed, carrier-grade network that is extensively peered and engineered to maintain at least 50% excess capacity at all times. By proactively scaling capacity and expanding peering relationships as needed, we deliver a consistently uncontended network service to our customers.
Speeds from 1 Gbit/s up to 400 Gbit/s are available. We support Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs), also known as port channels, allowing multiple physical interfaces to be combined into a single logical connection. This enables higher throughput beyond individual 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s links. For example, aggregating two 10 Gbit/s interfaces creates a single 20 Gbit/s logical interface.
If you choose to use BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) instead of static routing, you may advertise your own IRR-registered resources from RIPE LIR, ARIN, or other registries. We simply require that the appropriate route objects are created in the RIPE Database for your Autonomous System Number (ASN). This enables us to automatically generate and maintain inbound prefix and import filters.
We automatically generate and maintain inbound and outbound prefix filters using authoritative Internet Routing Registry (IRR) data associated with customer ASNs. This approach minimizes the risk of route leaks and configuration errors, accelerates provisioning and updates, and ensures routing policies remain current; delivering greater network stability and security without manual overhead.
Our extensive peering relationships unlock direct connectivity to leading content providers, CDNs, and gaming platforms, ensuring traffic takes the shortest and most efficient path possible. By exchanging traffic directly with these networks, we reduce reliance on upstream tier 1 transit providers, cutting latency and improving overall performance. This results in faster load times, smoother streaming, and more responsive online experiences.
We employ best path routing not least cost, ensuring traffic always follows the most efficient, lowest-latency route across our network. By continuously selecting the highest-quality paths based on latency, congestion, and network health, we deliver faster, more reliable connectivity and a consistently superior experience for end users. The result is predictable performance, reduced packet loss, and the assurance that your traffic is always routed over the best possible path.
Each Exascale POP is architected with resilience and performance as a baseline requirement, featuring a minimum of two dedicated 100G uplink into the core network. This high-capacity connection ensures that even at entry-level deployments, customers benefit from ample headroom to support rapid traffic growth, bursty workloads, and latency-sensitive applications.
We offer flexible contract options to suit different business needs, with terms available from 12 months up to 60 months. Customers can choose agreements with or without setup fees, depending on whether they prefer lower upfront costs or more favourable long-term pricing.
IP Transit with unrivaled reach and performance
Ideal for ISPs, data centres, content providers, and more
A strategic Exascale site in Telford & Wrekin, underpinning Exascale’s extensive fibre network that connects homes and businesses across the region. IP Transit is available directly within the facility, or via a fibre extension service to on-net postcodes throughout Telford & Wrekin.
A new facility for Exascale, with direct interconnection to IXMidlands. IP Transit is available directly within the facility, or via a fibre extension service to on-net postcodes in Wolverhampton.
Datum’s Manchester data centre, operated by Datum Datacentres, is a highly resilient facility located in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester, strategically positioned near major transport links and fibre routes. Designed for enterprise and mission-critical IT systems, the site offers flexible colocation solutions with high levels of power resilience, typically engineered to N+N standards, alongside advanced cooling and robust security. A key advantage of the facility is its connectivity, including access to the LINX Manchester internet exchange, which enables direct peering with multiple networks and significantly reduces latency for regional and international traffic.
the Lunar Digital Data Centre in Manchester serves as a strategic northern UK hub, providing high-capacity, low-latency connectivity to complement Exascale’s global transit network. Its carrier-neutral infrastructure and integration with LINX Manchester allow Exascale to offer dense peering and efficient routing for both regional and international traffic. By leveraging Exascale's resilient BGP network and access to multiple Tier 1 upstream providers, Exascale can deliver scalable, enterprise-grade IP transit with enhanced performance, redundancy, and network reach. This makes the Manchester site an ideal point for distributing traffic across the UK and Europe, improving overall latency and reliability for customers that require robust, high-speed internet connectivity.
Telehouse North in London is one of Europe’s most historically significant and highly connected data centres, located in the Docklands area at the heart of the city’s digital infrastructure. Opened in 1990 as the first purpose-built colocation facility on the continent, it became the primary home of the London Internet Exchange in 1994, helping establish London as a global internet hub.
Telehouse West in London is one of the flagship facilities within the Telehouse Docklands campus, widely recognised as one of Europe’s most important connectivity hubs. Opened in 2010, it was designed to meet the growing demand for high-density, energy-efficient data centre space, offering over 19,000 square metres of technical floor area. The facility provides advanced colocation services with robust power infrastructure, including N+N redundancy, alongside sophisticated cooling systems to support modern, high-performance IT environments.
Telehouse East in London is a major data centre facility within the Docklands campus operated by Telehouse, designed to support high-performance, enterprise-grade IT infrastructure. Opened in 2016, it was built to accommodate the growing demand for scalable, energy-efficient colocation space, offering thousands of square metres of technical floor area with flexible configurations for a wide range of clients.
Telehouse North Two in London is a highly advanced, carrier-neutral data centre located within Telehouse’s Docklands campus in East London, one of the most connected digital hubs in Europe. Opened in 2016, the facility spans a large multi-storey building and was designed to meet growing demand for cloud services, content delivery, and high-speed data exchange. It is a central connectivity hub, hosting the London Internet Exchange and providing access to hundreds of carriers and service providers, enabling ultra-low-latency connections across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
Telehouse South in London is a major, modern data centre located in the Docklands at Blackwall Yard, forming part of Telehouse’s globally significant connectivity campus. Opened in 2022, it is the company’s largest London facility and has been extensively refurbished to deliver high-performance colocation services, with a total capacity of up to 18 MW of IT power and around 31,000 m² of space. The site is designed for resilience and scalability, featuring redundant power systems, advanced cooling, and multiple data floors capable of supporting high-density workloads.
The Redcentric data centre in London is a high-specification facility designed to provide secure, reliable, and scalable IT infrastructure for businesses. Located in areas such as Shoreditch (London City) and Hounslow (London West), these data centres offer colocation services, private suites, and full data halls, all supported by strong connectivity to major network providers and Redcentric’s own high-speed core network. They are built to strict industry standards, with certifications like ISO 27001, and include advanced features such as redundant power supplies, 24/7 security, and resilient cooling systems to ensure continuous operation.
Nikhef Housing in Amsterdam plays a key role as a high‑connectivity hub that supports transit services by providing extensive peering and interconnection opportunities within the Dutch and wider European internet ecosystem. As one of Europe’s largest connectivity-focused sites, Nikhef Housing hosts the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS‑IX) along with other major exchanges, carriers, telecom operators, and service providers, creating a dense network of traffic exchange points that benefit IP transit networks. For Exascale, having a presence in Amsterdam at Nikhef Housing gives customers access to a well‑peered environment, enabling efficient routing and lower latency to networks across Europe. This interconnection complements upstream transit routes, improving both performance and resilience for businesses needing scalable, global internet connectivity.
FRA1 sits at the heart of Frankfurt’s digital ecosystem with direct access to DE‑CIX, one of the world’s largest internet exchanges, as well as multiple Tier‑1 carriers and cloud providers. By operating within FRA1, Exascale can offer customers robust IP transit with dense peering, redundant paths, and flexible routing options, ensuring resilience and fast connectivity to networks across Europe and beyond. The facility’s high power capacity, carrier neutrality, and strategic location make it ideal for supporting growing traffic demands and enabling scalable, enterprise-grade internet transit services.
Highly interconnected and redundant network
Simple, Scalable IP Transit
Frequently Asked Questions
IP Transit is a service that provides a network (known as an ASN) with access to the wider internet through another, usually much larger, network. It is commonly used by internet service providers, data centres, and large organisations that need reliable global connectivity. In a typical IP Transit setup, the customer pays for a certain amount of bandwidth (known as a CDR) and the provider carries their traffic to and from the rest of the internet, using BGP to decide the best paths. Unlike peering, which is usually limited to traffic exchanged between specific networks, IP Transit offers full internet reachability.
A committed data rate, often shortened to CDR, is the amount of bandwidth you agree to use and pay for as part of an IP Transit service. It represents the guaranteed level of capacity that your provider will make available to you at all times, regardless of how busy the network is. Your charges are typically based on this committed rate, with any traffic above it either billed separately or subject to agreed limits, depending on the contract. In simple terms, the committed data rate sets a clear baseline for both cost and performance, helping you plan capacity while ensuring consistent and predictable internet connectivity.
A Tier 1 network operates without needing to buy IP Transit, as it can reach every other network on the internet through settlement free peering alone. In contrast, a Tier 2 network peers with some networks but still relies on IP Transit to reach parts of the internet it cannot access directly. In practical terms, Tier 1 providers tend to have the widest global reach, while Tier 2 networks often combine peering and transit to balance cost, coverage, and performance. For customers, the main difference is that Tier 1 transit can offer very broad reach, whereas Tier 2 transit may be more cost effective but depends on upstream providers for full internet access.
The 95th percentile is a common way of measuring and billing bandwidth usage for IP Transit services. Your traffic is sampled at regular intervals, usually every five minutes, over the course of a month, and the highest five per cent of those readings are discarded. The next highest value is then taken as your billable usage. This approach allows for short bursts of higher traffic without significantly increasing costs, while still reflecting your typical peak usage. In simple terms, it gives you some flexibility to handle spikes while keeping billing fair and predictable.
An , usually referred to as an ASN, is a unique number assigned to a network that controls its own routing policies on the internet. In the context of IP Transit, an ASN identifies your network when traffic is exchanged with other networks using BGP. It tells the wider internet who you are and how your routes should be treated. Having your own ASN is important if you want more control over how traffic enters and leaves your network, rather than relying entirely on the routing decisions of your transit provider.
RPKI, or Resource Public Key Infrastructure, is a security framework used to help protect internet routing. In the context of IP Transit, it allows networks to verify that route announcements they receive are authorised by the rightful holder of the IP addresses involved. This helps prevent problems such as route leaks and accidental or malicious hijacks, which can disrupt traffic across the internet. For customers, using a transit provider that supports RPKI adds an extra layer of trust and stability to how traffic is routed to and from their network.
A BGP community is a tag that can be attached to routing announcements to pass extra information between networks. In the context of IP Transit, communities are often used by customers to influence how a transit provider handles their routes, such as controlling where routes are advertised or how traffic is preferred. They provide a simple and flexible way to apply routing policies without changing the underlying BGP setup. In practical terms, BGP communities give network operators more fine grained control over traffic behaviour while keeping day to day routing management straightforward.
A BGP MD5 password is a shared secret used to secure BGP sessions between two networks. In the context of IP Transit, it helps ensure that only authorised routers can establish a BGP connection with your transit provider, protecting against accidental or malicious session resets. Both sides configure the same password, which is checked when the session is set up and during communication. While it does not encrypt traffic, it adds a basic but effective layer of authentication that improves the overall stability and security of routing.
TTL Security is a feature designed to protect BGP sessions from unwanted or spoofed connections. It works by limiting how far BGP packets can travel, so only routers that are directly connected, or within a very short distance, can successfully form a session. If a packet arrives with an unexpected TTL value, it is simply dropped. This reduces the risk of remote attacks against BGP and adds another practical layer of protection to keep routing sessions stable and under control.
IP Transit provides a full connection to the global internet, allowing your network to exchange traffic with all destinations via a service provider’s backbone and peering relationships. It’s typically used by ISPs, content providers and larger networks that need to advertise their own IP space and manage routing using BGP. Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), on the other hand, is a simpler, managed service that delivers reliable internet connectivity for a single site, usually with fixed bandwidth and less control over routing. In short, IP Transit offers greater scale and control for complex networks, while DIA is designed for straightforward, business-grade internet access.
Low cost often means fewer routes, higher latency, and less resilience. As a Tier 2 network, Exascale goes beyond basic transit by adding multiple high-quality paths through peering exchanges throughout the UK and Europe in addition to dedicated PNIs, including direct connectivity with Amazon, Dropbox, and Google. The result is smarter routing, better performance, and reliability that cheap transit alone can’t deliver.
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