Metro Dark Fibre

Our metro dark fibre can be

used to address a range of
connectivity needs including
WAN build, cost-effective small
cell connectivity and smart city/
public service enablement.
Metro dark fibre meets the growing demand for greater
network and cost control, visibility and security.
By choosing to invest in a fully-scalable dark fibre solution
(instead of additional managed services), you can finally
decouple operational costs from growing bandwidth demand.
Our fibre network:
• 2,992km metro fibre footprint
• 1,170km long-distance network
• Fibre in over 60 UK towns and cities
• 42 defined metro networks – built to
address as many business clusters and
key sites as possible
• 12 whole-city FTTP projects targeted to serve
1m premises by the end of 2020
• Independent to other infrastructure providers –
ideal for providing resilient routes

Our products can help you increase margins, build for scale
and bid in with technology based solutions.

Metro network features:

• High capacity, modern ring architecture with
minimal jointing
• Strategically located PoPs (with dual power supplies) Aberdeen
and chambers Dundee
Stirling
Edinburgh
• ODF termination using high quality LC/APC
Glasgow
connectors (other presentations available) Ayr

• Use of ducts and sub-ducts to expedite fibre

replacement Newcastle
York
Harrogate
• G657.A1 fibre used as standard for all new Bradford
Leeds
Hull
Metro/FTTP network build. Halifax
Huddersfield Wakefield
Manchester Doncaster
Rotherham
Derby Sheffield
Use metro dark fibre to: Coventry
Nottingham
Peterborough
Leicester
• Build a fully protected resilient ring connected to Northampton
Swindon Cambridge
your head end Newport Milton Keynes
Bristol Southend
• Serve multiple customers with different network
Weston-S’-Mare Slough
architectures Exeter Maidenhead
Plymouth Bracknell
• Daisy chain P2P circuits within a resilient core Reading
Portsmouth
• Light office blocks or business parks using splitters Southampton
Bournemouth
or multiple fibres Bath

• Extend coverage, target new business or deliver specific

projects e.g. PSNs, mobile networks, WANs, etc.
• Migrate legacy services to improve long-term profits
or reduce customer prices
• Strengthen bids through supplier diversity, true
resilience and long-term cost certainty Visit cityfibre.com
to explore our network
Service wrap and responsibilities:
Network demarcation: We look after all dark fibre and related assets. Equipment and network beyond the
handover point is your responsibility
Testing: Testing is carried out to industry standards. We’re also able to meet pre-provision
or periodic testing requirements subject to agreement
Provision lead times: 45 days (subject to survey)

Support helpdesk: Available 24/7/365

Repair SLA: 5 hours as standard.

Fibre degradation response: Reports are typically investigated and resolved within 2 days

Pricing principles:
On/near metro footprint: Commercial flexibility and options:
To provide maximum price certainty, we use a ‘near-net’ pricing Reduced pricing may be available for longer term or larger
framework with distance related rate-card for new network scale network use. We’re also able to offer capital leasing
build. Standard prices are quoted on a three-year term. options (IRU) to help you boost ARPU and improve EBITDA.
Asset migration: Anchor partnership:
If you’re interested in moving your existing access Large dark fibre requirements within an area could be used to
estate across to our network, simply provide us with the trigger a new metro network build e.g. public sector or mobile
postcodes and we’ll build a migration plan and show you small cell network infrastructure.
the cost savings.
Excess Construction Charges: Whether you’re looking to use our
Many future ECCs will be negated by the whole-city FTTP metro or long distance dark fibre, we
build projects we currently have underway or in planning. In aim to be the most affordable provider
other areas cost sharing options are often available.
and the easiest to do business with.

Bespoke Fibre Tax arrangements:

CityFibre has negotiated bespoke fibre tax agreements with You can save thousands of pounds
the Valuation Office Agency and the Scottish Assessors
Association (SAA).
by choosing dark fibre from CityFibre.

Under these agreements, CityFibre is now the rateable Please contact us for more information
party for most Metro Dark Fibre provisioned to its partners on how fibre tax is calculated for us
and benefits from a fairer, flat rateable value to which the
and what this means for your projects.
percentage tax rates then apply.

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Information provided in this document is subject to change. All services are
provided subject to CityFibre contractual terms and conditions. © CityFibre all our dark fibre products,
Limited. Registered office: 15 Bedford Street, London, WC2E 9HE, England.
Company no. 09759465. email info@cityfibre.com.

Last updated: 04 April 2018