KWHS Network

KWHS and our sister companies operate from within a datacentre located in Manchester UK. Our Datacentre facility houses most of our switches, routers and firewalls. It gives us full control on our network.

• Wall mounted air conditioning units
• 24x7x365 Manned Security & Monitored CCTV
• 24/7 monitored CCTV within the data center (motion detection)
• Onsite Datacenter staff
• 24/7 data centre access
• 24/7 remote hands can be carried out
• Fire protection system
• Based on Manchester Science Park

KWHS operates within 5 Manchester based data centers & 6 in London. We have multiple connections to tier 1 providers in both London and Manchester. The resilience of our network allows us to reliably provide our customers with IP based services in all of our many data centre locations within the North West of England, down to London.

Internet Exchange Points

KWHS maintains a low latency network by peering with many different organizations at multiple Internet Exchange Points. An Internet Exchange Point is an organisation that has multiple members that all connect to each other over a common network. Each Organisation can then request to peer with one another over the network and exchange prefixes.

Once an organisation has agreed to peer and exchange prefixes with KWHS, traffic to and from this organisation doesn't traverse the public internet but instead traverses our network backbone between London and Manchester. Previously, before a peering was established with the organisation, traffic would traverse the internet over multiple hops to reach the destination network, now traffic at a maximum only has to traverse the KWHS backbone or best case the local POP router thus missing out multiple hops and minimizing latency.

Tier 1 Bandwidth

KWHS uses three tier one providers in Manchester and London.

Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet service provider ranked as the largest Ethernet Service Provider in the United States by Ovum-RHK and consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Their primary service offering consists of Internet access, data transport, colocation and managed modem services-all offered over an award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network.

Tiscali has the best performing backbone in Europe and their TINet IP/MPLS backbone extends over 19 countries in Europe, North America and Asia. We can also arrange a direct BGP with Tiscali/TINet AS if required.

Level3 is one of the largest IP Transit carriers in the world. The world’s largest telecom carriers all continue to use Level 3 services, as do the 10 largest U.S. Internet Service Providers, and the 10 largest European telecom carriers.

POP's

KWHS has three UK core network POPs for site, city and hardware resilience:

Manchester - Telecity Williams and IFL
London - TelecityRedbus Harbour Exchange

All POPs are highly resilient and scalable, consisting of high end Cisco routers in the network core and redundant layer 3 switches in the distribution layer. All edge switches providing the customer connections are dual connected to the distribution layer thus giving a highly fault tolerant network.