Colt
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Colt Technology Services is a B2B digital infrastructure company that provides networking, connectivity, voice, security, and cloud services to enterprises, wholesale customers, and capital markets firms across Europe, Asia, and the US. The company owns and operates a network connecting 230+ cities, 1,100+ data centres, and 32,000+ buildings across 40+ countries. Colt describes itself as the largest pure B2B digital infrastructure company in Europe, jointly operating AS3356, the world's most pee...
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Ideal Customer
- Colt's sweet spot is large enterprises, multinational corporations, and wholesale/carrier customers with complex, high-bandwidth, multi-site connectivity needs — particularly those operating across Europe, Asia, and North America.
- Typical customers include Fortune 500 enterprises such as Hitachi, Atos, Brussels Airlines, and Decathlon, as well as financial institutions, media companies, telecoms carriers, and public sector organizations.
Key Differentiators
- Colt's primary differentiator is its fully owned and operated Colt IQ Network — a purpose-built, cloud-integrated, software-defined infrastructure delivering high-bandwidth connectivity at scale across 40+ countries with no wholesale reliance on third-party backbone providers.
- Its Network as a Service (NaaS) platform, Colt On Demand, enables real-time, API-driven self-service ordering and bandwidth scaling across 32,000+ buildings and 275+ cloud on-ramps — a capability recognized with six MEF NaaS Excellence Awards in 2024 and Frost & Sullivan's 'Technology Innovation Leader' in European managed SD-WAN.
Industries Served
- Colt serves a broad set of information-intensive and data-heavy industries, with particularly deep specialization in capital markets and financial services — including banks, brokers, trading firms, 450+ capital markets customers, 50+ exchange venues, and 13 European central banks.
- Other key verticals include manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, transport and logistics, media and entertainment (including 18 of the top 25 global media companies), telecommunications (including 19 of the top 25 global telecoms companies), healthcare, defence, and the public sector.
Service Coverage
- Colt Technology Services operates as a global digital infrastructure company with a presence spanning 40+ countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and North America.
- Its network connects 32,000+ buildings across 230+ cities, with 50+ fully owned metropolitan area networks, 250+ Points of Presence, 1,100+ connected data centres, and 275+ cloud on-ramp locations.
Partnerships
- Colt maintains significant technology partnerships with major cloud providers and security vendors.
- It holds a Gold Partnership with Microsoft (including participation in the Azure Networking MSP Partners Programme), AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status (with aspirations for Premier status), and is a Gold Google Verified Peering Provider.
Company Size & Ownership
- Colt was founded in 1992 by entrepreneur James Hynes as City of London Telecommunications, backed by Fidelity Investments.
- The company employs approximately 5,000–6,000 people across 6 continents and 80+ offices worldwide, with revenue estimated at approximately $2.2 billion annually.
Compliance & Certifications
- Colt holds a comprehensive portfolio of internationally recognized certifications including ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management), ISO/IEC 27701 (Privacy Information Management — an extension to ISO 27001 for GDPR and global data privacy compliance), ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management), ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 20000 (Service Management), and Cyber Essentials Plus (UK government-backed cybersecurity scheme, independently audited).
- Its data centre estate (operated under Colt DCS) is additionally certified to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, with select data centres maintaining PCI-DSS compliance.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 13, 2026
Offerings
30 offeringsCage Colocation
Colt offers cage colocation services as part of its infrastructure network services portfolio, providing customers with dedicated cage space in data centres connected to the Colt network. This is listed separately from rack colocation in the product navigation.
Colt Cloud Manager
Colt Cloud Manager (CCM) is a secure, automated and high-performing cloud management solution that provides management of cloud infrastructure to make it scalable and cost-effective. It is described as supporting public cloud environments and providing a direct route to customers' cloud goals, with Google Cloud Platform among the supported providers.
Colt Dedicated Internet Access (DIA)
Colt Dedicated Internet Access provides dedicated, uncontended business-grade internet connectivity up to 100Gbps with a guaranteed 99.99% availability SLA over Colt's fully owned and managed network. The service includes Cloud Prioritisation for Microsoft Office 365, high availability options via Active/Active or Active/Standby failover (fibre or 4G secondary), and a range of add-ons including managed CPE, IPv6, BGP, usage-based billing, and security options. Partner Internet Access extends coverage to 150+ countries via 180+ trusted connectivity partners using broadband, 4G/5G and LEO satellite technologies.
Colt Ethernet Services
Colt Ethernet Services deliver point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, and any-to-any Ethernet connectivity across metro, national and international locations in 34 countries, covering 31,000+ connected buildings and 1,100+ data centres. Available service types include Ethernet Line Metro, National and International, Ethernet Hub and Spoke, and Ethernet VPN, with speeds ranging from 2Mbps to 100Gbps. Features include end-to-end encryption up to 10G, proactive monitoring, class of service prioritisation, link aggregation, and resilience via fibre pair failover.
Colt Financial Extranet
Colt Financial Extranet is a managed extranet service that connects capital markets participants to a global ecosystem of leading exchanges, venues and service providers. It enables trading firms to access global markets rapidly and cost-effectively with total service control in one platform. The service is specifically designed for capital markets customers including banks, brokers and trading firms.
Colt Financial Market Data
Colt Financial Market Data provides ultra-low-latency connectivity, market data feeds and managed infrastructure for trading firms requiring real-time access to market information. Colt offers 80+ market data feeds and serves 10,000+ market participants through its capital markets portfolio. The service includes India's National Stock Exchange and NSE International Exchange market data among its global offerings.
Colt IP Transit
Colt IP Transit provides high-bandwidth internet transit for ISPs, content providers and organisations operating their own autonomous system networks, delivering direct access to the full global Internet routing table. The service is delivered via AS3356 (the world's most peered network) across EMEA and AS8220 across North America and Asia Pacific, with port speeds from 10GbE to 400GbE. Billing options include fixed flat rate, usage-based 95th percentile, and aggregate commit models, with BGP communities, RPKI, and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack supported.
Colt Storage
Colt Storage is a storage-as-a-service offering with cloud-like flexibility and pay-as-you-go pricing designed for simplified data management. It is listed within Colt's cloud services portfolio as a scalable storage product.
Colt Ultra Low Latency
Colt Ultra Low Latency provides ultra-fast, deterministic connectivity across the world's leading financial hubs, designed specifically for high-frequency and algorithmic trading applications where every millisecond counts. It is listed as a distinct product within the capital markets solutions portfolio alongside the Financial Extranet and Financial Market Data offerings.
Colt Wave & Colt Spectrum (Wavelength Services)
Colt Wave and Colt Spectrum provide high-bandwidth optical connectivity up to 400Gbps deployed over the Colt IQ network, supporting enterprise and wholesale customers across metro, national and international routes. The service is fully transparent with no packet-delay variation, supporting Ethernet up to 400GE and Fibre Channel storage services from 1 to 32Gbps. Encryption options range from hardware-hardened Layer 1 encryption to quantum-safe encryption, with a variety of resilience and protection configurations available.
Colt Wholesale SIP
Colt Wholesale SIP provides carrier-grade SIP trunking for Cloud and OTT service providers, enabling them to build, integrate and sell Cloud Voice, UCaaS and CCaaS solutions across Europe without managing local VoIP infrastructure or multiple vendor relationships. The service offers geographic and nomadic numbers in 20+ countries, PSTN compliance including number portability, emergency calls and lawful intercept, and REST JSON API integration via a developer portal for automated number management. Colt has 25+ years of in-country regulatory expertise and provides daily unrated CDRs for billing purposes.
Contact Centre as a Service
Colt Contact Centre as a Service is a cloud-based contact centre offering listed within the voice and UC product portfolio. It is presented as a distinct service separate from unified communications and SIP trunking.
CPE Solutions
Colt CPE Solutions provides customer premises equipment as part of its wide area networking portfolio, enabling managed routing and on-site hardware for enterprise connectivity services. It is listed as a distinct product category within the networking infrastructure section alongside IP VPN and SD-WAN offerings.
Dark Fibre
Colt Dark Fibre provides dedicated, unlit optical fibre infrastructure that customers light and manage themselves, offering full control over design, configuration and bandwidth scalability. Available for metro and long-haul deployments across 31,000+ enterprise buildings and hundreds of data centres in Europe and Asia. Includes optional out-of-band monitoring using Adtran-ALM equipment for proactive fault detection, with route diversity and custom fibre ring topologies available.
DDoS Mitigation
Colt DDoS Mitigation (formerly IP Guardian) provides real-time protection of critical IT infrastructure against volumetric, protocol and application-layer distributed denial of service attacks to ensure business continuity. It is listed as a distinct security product within Colt's security portfolio alongside Secure Service Edge and Managed Firewall.
Dedicated Cloud Access
Colt Dedicated Cloud Access provides private, secure and reliable Ethernet and IP connections to leading public cloud providers, offering greater performance and control compared to public internet connectivity. The service is available as both a standalone product and as DCA Wave, which uses optical wavelength technology to deliver a private high-bandwidth link to major cloud providers with flexibility and scale. It is listed in Colt's cloud services portfolio as a distinct connectivity product.
Intelligent Numbers
Colt Intelligent Numbers is a voice service offering listed within the voice and UC product portfolio. It is presented as a distinct voice product separate from SIP Trunking and Wholesale SIP Trunking.
IP VPN
Colt IP VPN is a wide area networking service providing private, secure connectivity across multiple sites using Colt's managed IP network. It is listed as part of the wide area networking product family alongside SD-WAN and SASE solutions. The service enables enterprises to connect offices and sites securely over the Colt network.
LAN + Wireless LAN
Colt LAN and Wireless LAN is a managed local area networking service listed within the wide area networking product category. It is offered as part of Colt's broader portfolio for transforming enterprise workplace connectivity and is listed as a separate product from IP VPN and SD-WAN.
Managed Firewall
Colt Managed Firewall is a security service providing managed firewall protection for enterprise networks. It is listed as a distinct offering within Colt's security portfolio alongside DDoS Mitigation and Secure Service Edge.
Network as a Service (Colt On Demand)
Colt Network as a Service (NaaS) is a cloud-based platform that allows enterprises to order, modify and scale Ethernet, Cloud and Internet connectivity services in real time via an online portal or API, without manual provisioning delays. The platform covers 32,000 Colt-connected buildings, 275+ cloud on-ramp locations, and millions more locations via carrier partners in over 180 countries, with capacities up to 100Gbps. Pricing options include hourly to monthly billing, one-hour flexible plans, and 3-36 month fixed-term contracts with on-demand bandwidth boost capability.
Private Cloud
Colt Private Cloud is a cloud service offering listed within the cloud services product category, providing dedicated cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers. It is listed as a separate product from Public Cloud and Cloud Storage within Colt's cloud portfolio.
Private Wave (MOFN)
Private Wave, also referred to as MOFN (Managed Optical Fibre Network), is a dedicated optical wavelength network service providing fully scalable and resilient high-bandwidth connectivity at the highest security standard. It is suited for customers requiring multiple high-bandwidth services (10Gbps+), Fibre Channel, and customised network topologies such as point-to-point, ring or mesh. The service offers dedicated links and hardware for greater security, privacy and control over network design.
Public Cloud
Colt Public Cloud is a cloud service listed within the cloud services product category, enabling customers to access and consume public cloud resources through Colt's platform-agnostic infrastructure. It is listed as a distinct offering alongside Private Cloud and Cloud Storage in Colt's cloud portfolio.
Rack Colocation
Colt offers rack colocation services as part of its infrastructure network services portfolio, providing customers with space in data centres connected to the Colt network. This is listed as a distinct infrastructure offering in the product navigation alongside cage colocation.
SD-WAN + SASE
Colt SD-WAN and SASE is a wide area networking solution combining software-defined networking with secure access service edge capabilities for enterprise customers. It is listed as a distinct product within Colt's wide area networking portfolio alongside IP VPN and LAN services. Technology partners including Versa Networks and Zscaler are referenced in relation to Colt's SASE and secure networking capabilities.
Secure Service Edge
Colt Secure Service Edge (formerly Secure Web Gateway) is a cloud security service providing secure access capabilities for enterprise users connecting to the internet and cloud applications. It is listed as a distinct security product within Colt's protection and compliance portfolio alongside DDoS Mitigation and Managed Firewall.
SIP Trunking
Colt SIP Trunking is an enterprise voice service providing SIP-based trunking for connecting business telephony systems to the public telephone network over IP. It is listed as a distinct retail-focused voice product separate from the wholesale SIP trunking offering in Colt's voice and UC portfolio.
SwiftNet
SwiftNet is listed as a distinct networking service within Colt's wide area networking product portfolio. It appears alongside IP VPN, SD-WAN, and LAN services in the product navigation, indicating it is a separate networking connectivity offering.
Voice & Collaboration (Unified Communications)
Colt Voice and Collaboration is a unified communications service providing enterprise-grade voice and collaboration capabilities over Colt's global network. It is listed in the voice and UC portfolio alongside SIP Trunking and contact centre offerings, supporting enterprise, reseller and wholesale segments with on-demand automation.
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