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Spanning over 2,800 exchanges, with more than 80 per cent enabled for 10 Gb services, the collaboration marks a significant step forward for Zen in delivering high-performance, scalable connectivity solutions to businesses across the UK.
The partnership lays the foundation for a long-term strategic relationship, with growth and innovation at its core. By aligning API strategies and automation capabilities, both organisations aim to accelerate quoting, ordering, and service delivery bringing greater speed and efficiency to its partners and direct business customers.
The partnership further strengthens Zen’s partner portal, ‘The Fibre Hub’, after its launch in May. The Fibre Hub already offers access to a full fibre (FTTP) footprint of nearly 20 million premises via infrastructure providers Openreach, CityFibre, ITS and Freedom Fibre, with Trooli products coming soon.
Zen will now also provide its channel partners and direct business customers access to Sky Business Wholesale’s Ethernet-enabled exchange footprint and 10 GB Ethernet services. This builds on Zen’s offering of Ethernet over FTTP and business-grade connectivity products from CityFibre and ITS.
David Barber, Strategy Director at Zen Internet, said:
“Sky’s network reach is a strong strategic fit for Zen. This partnership expands choice and flexibility for our channel and UK businesses we serve directly, enabling us and the channel to compete more effectively on price, coverage and service. It is another significant step in bringing genuine infrastructure competition to the UK market.
“As we continue to build relationships with more key network providers, we’re on track to offer the widest geographic reach and the best commercial advantage for the channel and for direct business customers.”
Damian Saunders, Managing Director at Sky Business Wholesale, added:
“We’re excited to partner with Zen, a business that shares our focus on innovation and customer choice. This is just the beginning of a broader collaboration that will bring real value and better outcomes for the channel and business customers alike.”
The move is in line with Zen’s ambitions to bringing better value connectivity to UK businesses while also offering greater choice to Partners through The Fibre Hub.
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