Our four, operational data centres are all carrier neutral facilities and ideally positioned to the east and west of London with high-density, ultra-low latency fibre routes. These provide connectivity into the city, and onwards into international Tier 1 markets. Via Harlow we also uniquely provide access to the diverse USA – Dublin - Amsterdam route, without needing to cross London.
For the research and scientific communities prevalent within the Cambridge-London 'UK Innovation Corridor', we provide access to the super-fast Janet network, linking our Harlow campus with thousands of research institutes and science parks both locally and globally.
Kao Data has partnered with Console Connect to deploy its Software Defined Interconnection platform at our Harlow campus. Console Connect provides our clients with:
World-class fibre providers that support Kao Data across our platform include:
Kao Data’s Harlow campus is connected to Megaport - a leading Software Defined Network (SDN) provider.
Megaport provides Kao Data customers with:
Via our partners, Kao Data provides fast, dedicated on-ramps into all the leading international hyperscale and Tier 2 cloud providers:
The ability of our partners to support complex scientific data models while meeting technological and sustainability targets is a key consideration as we grow the range of Jisc data centre services. We’re proud to name Kao Data as the first of our referral partners as we seek to bolster academic and scientific research efforts across the UK.
Alec Wright, Cloud & Data Centre Services Manager, Jisc