News
20/May/2010New ADSL services
For some months now we have been trailling a new ADSL service with several customers. We are now able to offer this service to meet most requirements, from truly unlimited data usage to low cost low usage. We are also able to offer anex M facilitates giving higher upload speeds.
In addition our new service allows us to offer a more resilliant bonded ADSL solution by providing connections over 2 different networks.
01/May/201021 today
When Watchfront was started 21 years ago we would had no idea that it would develop into becoming and ISP. We did however want to develop our own products and this we have done with the FireBrick brand.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support some having continued to trade with us since we started.
23/Sep/2009Data Centre Expansion
Over the last two months we have significantly increased our available capacity within our facilities at BlueSquare in Maidenhead. We have plans to increase this further in the near future, as our own requirements increase as well as satisfying demand for Co-Location services for our customers.
01/May/2009Happy Birthday!
It is 20 years ago today (1 May 1989) that Watchfront started trading with an emphasis on quality and fairness. The format and personnel have not changed and we would all like to thank all our customers, some of whom have been with us since we started, for your business and encouragement.
21/Oct/2008ADSL2+
Having run successful trials over the last 3 months, we are pleased to announce that we now offer ADSL2+ as a standard service. The service is currently being rolled out by BT Wholesale; we will contact existing customers as the service becomes available in your area.
A frequently asked question is 'what speed can be expected?'. As with ADSL Max, this depends upon the distance you are from the exchange and the quality of your line. On ideal lines we expect to be able to provide up to 24Mb/s downlink and 1Mb/s uplink. Early next year there will be an option for even faster uplink, when BT implement "annexe M", offering uplink speeds in the region of 3Mb/s (at the expense of reduced downlink).
Please do contact sales@watchfront.co.uk if you would like more information.
10/May/2008New Colocation Tariffs
Following yesterday's announcement regarding our new Maidenhead facility, we are today delighted to publish new tariffs for Maidenhead and Amsterdam colocation services.
09/May/2008Maidenhead Datacentre
We are pleased to announce that we have now extended our network to the Bluesquare data centre in Maidenhead. The combination of 4 transit providers over 3 physical locations, combined wth private interconnects, allows us to offer very flexible and highly reliable colocation and ADSL services with resilience to suit your requirements.
08/Jan/2008New Transit
We have today added Internet Connections as an additional transit provider in our London datacentre, providing further diveristy in available routing and resilience.16/Oct/2006ADSL Max
We are pleased to announce a range of ADSL Max offerings, having been trialling this technology for some time. We have also taken the opportunity to clarify our usage policy for all ADSL.
19/Jan/2006London Datacentre Expansion
Thanks to ever increasing demand for our quality services we are excited to announce that we are doubling our data centre capacity. As our existing customers can testify, our dedication to professional service coupled with our guarantees are amongst the best the industry can offer.
06/Oct/2005ADSL and Colocation Pricing
We are pleased to announce today a variety of improved value ADSL and colocation services. ADSL rental and installation charges have been reduced across the board, new Bonded ADSL packages released, and co-location installation charges dropped.
Without any compromise in our excellent professional and personal service, we have introduced a new cheaper and simplified pricing structure for our ADSL and colocation services. From today, new customers can take advantage of the new prices (existing customers have already been contacted), just contact us and we will do the rest.
Our ADSL services offer fixed monthly rental (no usage based charging) with a minimum contract of 1 month.
19/Aug/2005FireBrick at V Festival
Virgin Radio are using FireBricks supplied by Watchfront, to provide connectivity at their huge V Festival this weekend.
Faced with the problem of obtaining reliable and fast network connectivity to this remote open-air site, they contacted us. We provided a solution using two FireBrick 105s to bond four 1Mb ADSL connections. Utilising FireBrick's Tunnel Bonding technology it was possible to provide a resilient 4Mb connection, with a 'roaming' block of fixed public IP addresses.
The IT staff at Virgin Radio Outside Broadcast are very pleased with the result, and we wish them a successful weekend!
18/Apr/2005Amsterdam Datacentre
We are pleased to announce that we have opened a new data centre in Amsterdam, and are now taking orders for server colocation here. The data centre is located in Redbus Amsterdam facilities, and was chosen to provide the maximum possible resilience in conjunction with our London data centre. It has independent transit provision, and a private link between the two data centres allowing access to both centres even if all transit to one has died. Please contact us for more details.
19/Oct/2004VoIP Phone System
We have new phone numbers, following the installation of our new VoIP phone system
Sales: +44 20 7517 4901
Support: +44 20 7517 4902
Calls may be recorded
27/Aug/2004Bonded ADSL
We have launched a range of Bonded ADSL Packages, providing faster and higher availability Internet connections than ADSL normally affords - a viable alternative to a leased line. More on Bonded ADSL