London-based network operatorColt
Telecommunicationscrashed yesterday leaving customers
in eight European cities without services from the early
morning.
Those affected included UK communications regulator Ofcom, whose
website and e-mail services were unavailable. An Ofcom spokesman
said service was restored by early evening, but a Colt spokesman
said they were still working to restore service across the
network.
The outage hit Colt data services in London, Brussels, Geneva,
Dublin, Zurich, Milan, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, with Vienna being
affected later.
"At this stage we have an open mind about the cause," the
spokesman said. Colt's priority was to restore services, she
said.
A "small proportion" of Colt's customers had been affected, "But
obviously, that's very important to them," she said.
Colt's network reaches 13 countries, providing "last-mile" fibre
to over 16,000 buildings in 35 European cities. The operator
provides wholesale and managed voice and data services.
It recently completed its carrier Ethernet-based multi-service
platform which delivers metro-scale Ethernet services, national and
international Ethernet, IP VPN and internet access services.