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Empowering the UK’s digital future with dark fibre, neutral host, and data centre connectivity solutions engineered for scale, resilience, and innovation.

Why ITS for infrastructure

Whether you’re connecting critical infrastructure, scaling enterprise workloads, or enabling next-generation 5G, our carrier-neutral fibre network delivers secure, high-performance connectivity built to evolve with your business.

ITS delivers the UK’s most advanced business-grade fibre infrastructure – enabling neutral hosts, carriers, data centres, and enterprises to connect, scale, and perform without compromise.

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Get in Touch with Our Expert Major Business Team

Our specialists are here to guide you with tailored solutions, expert insights, and dedicated support – helping your major business thrive every step of the way.

Dark Fibre Connectivity

ITS’ Dark Fibre connectivity provides the backbone for modern enterprise connectivity. Our Dark Fibre solutions provide exclusive high capacity infrastructure that scales at the speed of your innovation – built to support carriers, data centres and hyperscalers.

The evolution of edge technologies means there’s an ever-increasing reliance on AI, Machine Learning and Large Language Models. Dark Fibre from ITS provides the ultra-low-latency data highway that supports:

  • Routing and Remote Access
  • Advancing Cloudification
  • Speed to market
  • Network Congestion Avoidance
  • Pan-European expansion

Download our Dark Fibre Whitepaper

A comprehensive exploration of how dark fibre can help businesses enhance security, cost effectivity and network resilience.

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Powering the UK’s data centre future

GPU-intensive workloads and intensifying edge compute demand is setting a new standard for data centre connectivity. With ITS, UK-based DCs are poised to keep up with growing demand . Our dedicated data centre offering and high-speed access provides data centres with the capacity to drive growth in regional markets, unlocking opportunity for data centres to connect with hyperscalers.

Carrier-neutral by design, our existing fibre proximity means faster deployment and flexible scaling, giving data centres the tools they need to respond to growing customer capacity demand. We give data centres the arsenal to:

  • Reduce time to revenue
  • Offer differentiated connectivity options
  • Attract new tenants with growing workloads.

Read Our Infratech Whitepaper

Discover how modern infrastructure is changing and there’s a growing need for the critical foundations of every industry to find new, more cost-effective, and efficient ways to operate.

Diversifying with colocation

Our diverse partner ecosystem offers unprecedented colocation opportunities for Data Centre customers. Our partner roster spans 500+ specialist resellers, ISPs, and enterprises – providing unlimited expansion opportunity for Data Centres looking to tap into data intensive sectors, such as finance and government. Combining high-capacity connectivity with local hosting opportunities, together with ITS – you can streamline customer acquisition.

Unlocking enterprise opportunity

Not only does ITS connectivity provide a scalable backbone to support the UK’s explosive data centre growth; enterprises can tap into a rich market that provides an off-premises solution to accommodate growing cloud adoption. As security compliance heats up, colocation for enterprise gives you an opportunity to shift hosting off-site into a hyper-secure premises, with advanced cooling and data management capability.

ITS delivering full fibre to Deep Green’s ‘lighthouse’ data centre

ITS has been chosen as the full fibre infrastructure provider for Deep Green’s flagship data centre, currently under development in Urmston, Greater Manchester.

Based next to move Urmston Leisure Centre, the data centre known as DG01, is a ‘lighthouse’ project in Deep Green’s UK roadmap. It will showcase an innovative model, combining high-performance compute capabilities with local infrastructure, harnessing heat energy that can be reused for the public good.

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Connectivity that transcends borders

Thanks to ITS’s extensive UK-wide coverage in major business hubs, along with access to long-haul and metro backbones and strategic partnerships with multinational providers, our infrastructure services offer unmatched reach across borders and into European markets.

Built for tomorrow. Ready today

Our network lays the fibre-ready foundation for smart reuse of street furniture – enabling seamless integration with tomorrow’s 5G innovations.

Whether you’re a mobile operator rolling out 5G, data centre seeking high-capacity fibre capability, or a public sector body upgrading urban infrastructure, our approach gives you the flexibility to scale fast and collaborate effectively.

We support smart reuse of street furniture, enabling seamless integration of small cells, sensors, and edge devices – ideal for CCTV deployments, traffic management, and public safety networks.

With ITS, you get:

• Carrier-grade fibre that supports multi-tenant use and diverse service models
• Physically secure, deeper fibre builds that reduce risk and increase resilience
• Smart, self-healing backhaul that adapts to demand and ensures up-time
• Collaborative deployment models that eliminate urban not-spots

Whether you’re enabling next-gen connectivity or supporting high-stakes public projects, our infrastructure is ready to deliver, today and tomorrow.

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ITS and euNetworks deliver direct UK-to-Europe data centre connectivity

ITS and euNetworks have joined forces to enhance connectivity for businesses across the UK and Europe.

The partnership between ITS and euNetworks, a European provider of critical bandwidth infrastructure, brings together ITS’s dedicated, business-grade full fibre network – already reaching more than 25% of the UK’s commercial premises and passing a third of data centres – with euNetworks’ extensive footprint of 582+ connected data centres across Europe.

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Our Guiding Principles

Ready for what’s next

We’re pioneering partnerships that maximise public investment, prioritizing smart reuse of street furniture to enable fast, seamless integration with tomorrow’s 5G innovations.

Reliability at scale

We go deeper. Literally. Our physically secure fibre build is backed by a smart, self-healing backhaul network, designed for high-capacity diversity at scale.

Trusted by critical institutions

We’re proud to be trusted by some of the UK’s leading public sector frameworks to deliver infrastructure to critical services. Our reputation is built on performance, resilience, and trust.

Investing Together for Growth

Our model enables our infrastructure partners to divert capital where it counts to unlock growth, reduce duplication and accelerate deployment. And what’s more, we’re neutral by nature – so we’ll never compete with your offering, only complement it.

Read Our Boldyn Case Study

Keen to understand our work? Read about how ITS collaborated with Boldyn Networks to change the standard of asset reuse in London.

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Capacity Europe/Dark Fibre Brochure
Ignite your digital potential with a dark fibre connectivity solution with ITS. Unlike traditional lit fibre optic cables, dark fibre offers exclusive connectivity free from congestion and latency, helping to propel the businesses forward at light speed. Take the brakes off your network security with autonomous control over data transmission and fortify defences against cyber security threats while accommodating bandwidth-hungry technologies.
Dark Fibre
Dark Fibre Whitepaper
The Strategic Advantage of Infrastructure in Advancing Businesses Implementing scalable, flexible dark fibre solutions can help businesses access the bandwidth needed to excel, but how does it address CTO and CEO agendas?A comprehensive exploration of how dark fibre can help businesses enhance security, cost effectivity, and network resilience.
Eurovision 2023
The Liverpool City Region’s new full fibre network, built as part of LCR Connect, a 50% publicly owned joint venture, has played a leading role in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.Utilising the 212km full fibre network that is being built across the six local authorities of the city region, LCR Connect provided the digital highway that enabled the successful delivery of the week-long celebration and Saturday’s final.
Boldyn Networks
Leveraging ITS’s extensive network, which already spans all 32 London boroughs, and Boldyn’s unique access to critical assets through its Transport for London (TfL) concession, the project is actively boosting public safety, digital access, and economic growth.

To learn more about our services for Enterprise partners, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the ITS team.

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    Dave Ferry
    Chief Sales Officer

    As Chief Sales Officer, Dave leads the sales strategy at ITS, driving growth and strengthening customer relationships. Overseeing commercial success across Partner Markets, Public Sector and Major Business, Dave uses his 20 years of telecoms experience to build high-performing teams and deliver innovative solutions that meet market demands.

    Previously, Dave held senior roles at Virgin Media Business, leading successful teams in various market segments.

    Kevin McNulty
    Strategy Director

    Kevin leads the Strategy team in ITS, comprising the core functions of network Investment (including M&A), regulation, public affairs, product management and marketing. With over 4 years’ experience within the leadership team of ITS, Kevin has played a pivotal role in shaping the business direction as it has grown to be a leading provider of B2B wholesale connectivity.

    Prior to ITS, Kevin has a long background in the industry, having held senior positions in BT, Virgin Media, KCOM and NTT – as well as a period spent in consultancy.

    Claire Davies
    People & Culture Director

    Claire is the People and Culture Director for ITS, responsible for ensuring we provide a great place to work, with amazing people who are happy, productive, and engaged.

    A CIPD qualified HR professional with previous industry experience at Amey, as well as more recent experience in a number of small businesses, Claire is passionate about putting people first in order to grow the business.

    Mike Goodwin
    Chief Technology Officer

    Mike is responsible for all technical, operations, customer service and security within ITS. Using his degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and MBA from Manchester Business School, Mike focuses on how ITS can introduce and support complex solutions designed to create customer-focused teams that ensure exceptional experience. On top of his extensive career history spanning TalkTalk, Hyperoptic and Fibre Nation, Mike is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET.

    Charlie Versi
    Chief Operating Officer

    Charlie leads ITS’s end-to-end operational delivery, with a focus on service excellence and delivering an outstanding experience for both partners and their business customers. His appointment will help build on the company’s strong foundations – driving transformation, quality, and innovation and using them as key enablers of continued growth.

    Daren Baythorpe
    Chief Executive Officer

    Daren is a dynamic leader who drives the strategy, growth and direction of ITS. Daren has significant utility / telecoms sector experience and has held several board-level leadership and advisory positions for a number of organisations including Severn Trent Water and BT. He served on the Board of Openreach, where he held executive responsibilities as Director of the Customer Service Division, Director for Field Engineering then latterly serving as Managing Director of the Business Division.

    Daren also regularly advises and collaborates with government and other regulatory / telecoms bodies on sector-related issues. His in-depth knowledge and understanding of the requirements of operators and high capacity data users, through his vast experience across the industry, mean that ITS is thriving under his leadership

    Kevin Gaskell
    Chairman

    Kevin leads our board and is responsible for giving strategic advice and counsel, as well as attracting and driving investment. Kevin is recognised as one of the most successful leaders of his generation, having led iconic brands such as Porsche, Lamborghini and BMW. A highly experienced serial entrepreneur and private equity chairman, he has led multi-billion-pound global organisations; and also founded startups such as Epyx Limited, building it up to become the market leader for automotive e-commerce solutions.

    Kevin has received multiple accolades; highlights include making the ‘UK’s top 40 leaders under 40’ list, chairing the ‘best UK private equity investment of the year’, and being a founder of award-winning start-up companies across the globe.