Interoute describes these recurring costs for static cables as a “Patch Tax”. The company estimates that currently business in the UK spend between £70 and £100 million a year on recurring patch charges.
Interoute’s London City data centre forms part of the company’s distributed cloud services platform, which encompasses over 60,000 km of lit fibre, 11 data centres, 8 Virtual Data Centres and 31 collocation centres, with connections to 140 additional third-party data centres across Europe.