SSE Enterprise Telecoms has kicked off phase two of Project Edge, adding a further 33 BT exchanges to its existing 13,700km, 232 Point of Presence (PoP) UK-wide fibre network.
The deployment adds another 50,000 city centre business postcodes to the 200,000 introduced by phase one of Project Edge.
This latest initiative follows the success of the original network expansion announced in November 2013 that saw 54 new Exchange PoPs - many of which were in London - added to the SSE Enterprise Telecoms network.
With the additional PoPs and by interconnecting with other fibre network service providers in the UK, as part of Edge Plus, SSE Enterprise Telecoms initiated full UK-wide coverage.
SSE Enterprise Telecoms experienced a 250 percent increase in orders of its Ethernet services in the last 12 months, largely due to its investment in Project Edge and the Edge Plus services.
"Our most recent network expansion initiatives have focused on adding 31 commercial data centres in London and Manchester that can deliver 1Gb and 10Gb waves in a week," said Colin Sempill, managing director of SSE Enterprise Telecoms.
"Edge 2 will see us invest once again in national Ethernet services to meet the clear demand for high quality Ethernet connectivity across the nation."