UK data center services provider SSE Telecoms has bought the last phase of its Project Edge online with an additional 30 Points of Presence (PoPs).

The PoPs are located mainly throughout central London but also in Birmingham, Coventry, Derby, Edinburgh, Leeds, Slough and Windsor which will all provide up to 10Gb capacity per customer connection.

Project Edge is the name given to SSE Telecoms’ extensive network expansion – adding 54 PoPs in central business districts to bring high performance and affordable connectivity solutions to the UK’s largest and most demanding organizations.

In November last year the project brought 24 PoPs online in Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Swindon, Bracknell, Portsmouth, Reading, Southampton, Maidenhead, Weybridge, Windsor, Crawley, Nottingham, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Croydon, Hayes, Hemel Hempstead, Isleworth, Uxbridge, Watford, Luton, Stevenage, Liverpool and Glasgow.

In February - as part of Project Edge - SSE Telecoms launched its LIGHTNOW service - a high-capacity, ultra-resilient optical networking service connecting 21 of London’s “busiest” data centers with 10GbE wavelengths that can be provisioned within seven days.

Project Edge has extended the reach of SSE Telecoms’ UK fiber network to more than 13,700km, with a total of 234 PoPs serving over 200,000 metropolitan business postcodes.

SSE Telecoms’ managing director Chris Jagusz said there is still more to come from Project Edge and the company is fully committed to its ongoing investment.

The 30 additional PoPs now live are: London Bishopsgate, London Covent Garden, London Faraday, London Poplar, London Mayfair, London Southbank, London Bloomsbury, London Whitehall, London Soho, London South Kensington, London Euston, London Pimlico, London Fulham, London Kings Cross, London Marylebone, London North Paddington, London Hammersmith, London Chiswick, London Shoreditch, London Westminster, London Kensington Gardens, Slough, Windsor, Birmingham, Cambridge (x2), Coventry, Derby, Edinburgh, Leeds.