Colt Multi Service Platform. Better performance. Dedicated bandwidth. Colt Multi Service Platform (Colt MSP) is an end-to-end network transporting Ethernet in the access ring and through the core network. This means there is no need to encapsulate Ethernet frames into SDH frames at any point. Because it avoids encapsulation, you benefit from lower latency and consequently better performance. In fact, this saves up to 2.5 milliseconds at both the A-end and B-end of a link.
Colt MSP provides a high performance connection orientated Ethernet transport network. This is possible because we keep our Colt MSP network totally separate from our IP network, enabling us to use predefined data paths and significantly reduce latency. The end result is that we can offer stable, optimised performance and avoid the variability that plagues networks using routing algorithms to try to minimise congestion.
Colt MSP uses MPLS as the main protocol to create paths across the network. As such it can support multiple services while offering a more robust recovery framework than that provided by legacy SDH. In addition this offers network administrators better traffic management helping to ensure high quality of service (QoS) right across the network.
With Colt MSP, dual homing comes as standard. So there are always two physically separate pieces of equipment wherever access rings start and terminate. This means that should something happen to one, the other can immediately take over (a process that takes a mere 50 milliseconds).
So what might be a disaster for many other networks is just the most minor of inconveniences for Colt MSP.
Colt MSP gives you the security and performance of SDH with the flexibility of Ethernet. The result is lower latency, reduced jitter and a stronger class of service (CoS) capability. And with Colt MSP, provisioning is quick and upgrades are simple.
All of the Colt MSP services are delivered over a single compact box. This means you can dramatically save space and reduce power no matter how many services you add. And each box can scale from 2Mbps to 1Gbps giving you significant scope for growth without the time and the hassle required to change equipment.
With the CPE in place, you can pick and choose services depending on your business needs. These include:
