An Update on Our UK Network Rollout

In March, we wrote about taking control of the pipe — landing our own hardware at Telehouse, becoming our own carrier, and removing the layers between your ISP and Computle. We are doing this to guarantee the best possible experience for our customers, by controling the network layer ourselves. This post provides an update on the rollout.

We are now live on LINX

Computle (AS213513) is now a full member of LINX — the London Internet Exchange, where the UK's internet converges. Our first edge is colocated at Telehouse London, one of the UK's premier carrier hotels, where thousands of ISPs, carriers, and networks already have a presence. Via the LINX route servers, we peer directly with hundreds of UK and European networks.

When your ISP is on LINX, your traffic hands off directly to our edge at Telehouse rather than transiting through intermediate carriers. That means lower latency, no throttling, and more consistent performance — because no one in the middle is making routing decisions that affect your connection.

Our 100G private backbone

The private L1 fibre between Telehouse and UK-B is the first link in what becomes our 100G backbone. As you can see in the smokeping data below, latency dropped the moment the link came live — and has stayed there. As we connect more sites on the same model, the backbone grows with it. Purpose-built capacity between our own facilities, carrying only Computle traffic, with nothing in the middle to add delay.

Direct connections to Microsoft, AWS, and the platforms you use

We've established a dedicated port with Microsoft and we connect directly to major cloud networks including AWS. If your project data lives in Panzura, Egnyte, or any platform hosted on those networks, it's travelling a more direct path to your workstation — fewer hops, lower latency, no carrier in between adding unpredictability. Same applies to Teams and Microsoft 365.

New transit: moving to Tier 1 only

We've added Arelion as a new transit provider at Telehouse and are consolidating onto Tier 1 carriers only — Arelion and Cogent — moving away from the Tier 1 and Tier 2 providers previously spread across our DCs. Combined with LINX peering for local traffic, this gives us better routes, lower latency, and optimised costs.

The bigger picture

The UK buildout — private L1 fibre between facilities, LINX peering, direct cloud connections — is now our global runbook. Every new Computle site follows the same model, and we're progressively connecting existing sites together via dedicated private circuits, reducing the reliance on third-party transit.

To learn more, visit computle.com.