The network as a service

As Viatel moves into new market sectors, it has found a growing appetite for managed network services

Damien McCann, director of sales and marketing at Viatel

Viatel is best known as an enterprise telco, offering ultra-high end connectivity and voice to enterprise-level customers: fast fibre with licensed radio spectrum back-ups. The company also offers managed network services, however, and has a new customer profile in mind.

Damien McCann, director of sales and marketing, explained the proposition.

“Our take on managed services is managed networks. We manage client WAN networks, multi-site MPLS [multiprotocol label switching] networks, where we provide connectivity ...