Network Services

Simple UK point-to-point fibre

A dedicated layer-2 Ethernet Private Line between two of your buildings — or from your office into your rack at our Cambridge Tier III data centre. No public internet, no NAT, no surprises.

Layer-2 EPL100Mbps–10GbpsVLAN transparent99.99% SLA
Two UK buildings connected by private fibre — Fast2host point-to-point network
No public internetAS48825 · Cambridge NOC
0
Sites per circuit
0Gbps
Maximum bearer
0%
Uptime SLA
0/7
UK NOC support
How it works

One private wire between A and B

We deliberately keep this product simple — exactly two endpoints, layer-2 transparent, run by a UK engineering team that picks up the phone.

  • Private layer-2 fibre between two buildings
  • Symmetric 100Mbps up to 10Gbps
  • Sub-5ms typical UK metro latency
  • VLAN-transparent — no NAT, no public internet
  • Office-to-rack delivery at our Cambridge DC
  • 99.99% SLA, UK NOC 24/7/365

Layer-2 EPL

Site A ↔ Site B · no public internet

Private wire

Site A

Your office / HQ

VLAN 10VLAN 20

Site B

Branch or Cambridge DC

802.1QQ-in-Q

Profile

1:1 sym

Latency

<5ms

SLA

99.99%

Traffic stays on carrier optical fabric — never routed over the public internet.

One private wire between exactly two endpoints. VLAN-transparent handoff at both ends.

What's included

One private wire. Done properly.

Clean layer-2 connectivity with the engineering, SLA and UK support you'd expect from a Cambridge-based ISP.

Two Sites, One Private Wire

A dedicated layer-2 Ethernet Private Line (EPL) between two of your buildings — that's all we do, and we do it properly.

Guaranteed Bandwidth

Hard committed information rate (CIR) on every circuit — symmetric, low jitter, effectively zero packet loss.

Private & Secure

Your traffic never touches the public internet. The circuit lives on the carrier's optical fabric end-to-end.

VLAN Transparent

Full 802.1Q and Q-in-Q support — extend dozens of VLANs natively between sites without retagging or NAT.

Office ↔ Fast2host Rack

Most popular deployment: a point-to-point from your office straight into your rack at our Cambridge Tier III data centre.

End-to-End SLA

99.99% availability, ≤4-hour MTTR and proactive service credits — backed in writing and monitored from our UK NOC.

Most popular

Office straight into your Cambridge rack

The deployment we deliver most often: a private EPL from your office into your colocated infrastructure at Fast2host — one flat network, no public exposure.

  • Layer-2 handoff straight into your Fast2host cabinet switch
  • Extend office VLANs with 802.1Q — no NAT or public hops
  • Ideal for storage replication, backup and DR workloads
  • Same 99.99% SLA and UK NOC as every other circuit we deliver
Point-to-point fibre connecting a customer office to their rack at Fast2host Cambridge data centre
Who it's for

Built for businesses that need a private wire

From HQ-to-branch LAN extension to regulated data movement — if it's two sites, we can wire them.

HQ ↔ Branch Office

Link two of your buildings with a single flat network — VoIP, file shares and AD/SSO run as if both sites were under one roof.

Office ↔ Data Centre

Stretch your office LAN directly into your Fast2host rack — perfect for replicating storage, off-site backups and DR.

Regulated Workloads

Finance, legal and healthcare clients moving sensitive data between two sites without ever touching the public internet.

Choosing the right product

Point-to-point vs leased line (DIA)

Not sure which you need? Many customers run both — DIA for internet at the edge, P2P for private site-to-site traffic.

Leased line / DIA
Point-to-point
Purpose
Symmetric internet access to one site
Private wire between two of your sites
Layer
Layer 3 — routed public IP
Layer 2 — VLAN-transparent EPL
Internet path
Breaks out to the public internet
Never touches the public internet
Typical use
Office broadband replacement
HQ↔branch, office↔DC replication
Often paired with
Firewall & DIA at the edge
DIA at HQ + P2P to DR or colo rack

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Technical specification

At a glance

Service type
Ethernet Private Line (EPL) — point-to-point only
Endpoints
Two sites
Bearer
1Gbps / 10Gbps Ethernet
Committed rates
From 100Mbps up to 10Gbps
Profile
Symmetric 1:1, uncontended
Uptime SLA
99.99% (proactive credits)
MTTR
≤ 4 hours
Latency (UK metro)
< 5 ms typical
VLAN handling
802.1Q + Q-in-Q transparent
From quote to live

A predictable delivery process

  1. 1

    Survey & quote

    Send us the two UK postcodes and required bandwidth. We'll quote carrier options and confirm fibre availability at both ends.

  2. 2

    Order & build

    We place the carrier order, manage wayleaves and landlord permissions, and project-manage delivery through to handover.

  3. 3

    Configure & test

    Our engineers stage the edge switches, configure VLANs and LACP, run RFC-2544 testing end-to-end and validate the SLA.

  4. 4

    Live & monitored

    Go live with 24/7 NOC monitoring, latency / jitter / loss reporting and a single Cambridge UK number to call.

Related network services

Pair point-to-point with DIA, cloud connect or colocation — all delivered from the same Cambridge NOC.

7 common questions

A point-to-point (P2P) network is a dedicated layer-2 fibre circuit between two of your buildings — sometimes called an Ethernet Private Line (EPL) or private wire. There's no public internet in the path, no contention, and your VLANs and IP scheme ride across natively as if both sites were patched into the same switch.

Site survey & quote

Quote your point-to-point circuit

Enter both UK postcodes and your bandwidth — we'll run a live Ethernet point-to-point check and show indicative carrier options. Site B defaults to our Cambridge data centre for office-to-rack EPL.

Live quote · Ethernet point to point
Point-to-point quote tool

Your office or primary site.

Cambridge data centre · PE28 9ET

Enter both postcodes to load indicative point-to-point pricing automatically.

Request a formal quote from Fast2host

Prefer to talk it through? Send us both postcodes and we'll confirm lead times.