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Colt Technology Services, the global digital infrastructure company, announces that it is the first network service provider to offer a fully managed service for the proven enterprise networking technology solution named SCION (Scalability, Control and Isolation on Next Generation Networks) in Europe, North America and Asia. SCION technology has been developed in Switzerland by technology company Anapaya and is widely used across critical infrastructure, including the Swiss financial community. Combining Anapaya’s pioneering technology with Colt’s global network, operations and enterprise connectivity expertise, Colt SCION delivers next-level resilient networking, ideal for organizations with highly sensitive, regulated or mission-critical network requirements, including energy, healthcare, government, defense and global financial organizations. Mission-critical network requirements With data sovereignty and cybersecurity at the top of today’s boardroom agenda, organizations require complete visibility and control over their data flows. While traditional internet- or IP-based Wide Area Networks (WANs) can provide some visibility over where data travels, Colt SCION gives customers deeper levels of control and complete transparency of their data: organizations can define, audit and enforce exactly how their data travels end-to-end. This helps them meet regulatory requirements, support data sovereignty needs and deliver more predictable performance. Built with resilience and security at its core, this solution helps keep services running smoothly while protecting data from disruption, interception and other network-based threats. High-quality infrastructure Peter Coppens, VP - Product, Colt Technology Services, says, “Trust, resilience and control are non-negotiable for organizations handling critical data. Colt SCION delivers all three, giving enterprises greater assurance over how their data travels. As the first provider to bring SCION-enabled connectivity across Europe, North America and Asia, Colt combines a new security standard with the reach and control of its own global infrastructure.” “Colt’s new SCION-based products will make its advanced security and resilience capabilities available on a global high-quality infrastructure—when the need has never been greater. AI is enabling attackers to automate and scale increasingly sophisticated attacks, while the consequences of downtime for critical services are immediate. Organizations need new approaches to isolate and protect critical services against attacks from the public internet. SCION has proven secure and reliable in these challenging times as critical services are increasingly under heavy attack,” says Martin Bosshardt, CEO of Anapaya. Safeguarding critical data Colt SCION is now commercially available following a two-year proof of concept. Colt worked with developer Anapaya, who rigorously tested and validated the technology with several organizations in the financial sector already using the solution to give them deeper observability and to safeguard their critical data. Businesses can choose from two SCION solutions, each serving different networking needs: Colt SCION Private provides resilient connectivity to existing private ecosystems and extranets, suiting financial institutions looking to connect to existing private domains through partners. Colt SCION Global is a highly secure WAN solution, ideal for organizations looking for an ultra-resilient, secure, sovereign technology on which to build their backbone network infrastructure.

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company and an Oracle partner, today announced it will offer connectivity to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect in the Frankfurt and Madrid regions. Oracle customers can use Oracle Cloud locally to innovate faster, scale with confidence and drive business growth. As demand for digital sovereignty accelerates across Europe, enterprises and public sector organizations are seeking cloud architectures that deliver performance, resilience and regulatory compliance. Meeting sovereignty requirements By extending its connectivity to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, Colt is helping organizations accelerate cloud adoption while meeting sovereignty requirements. Through Colt’s high performance, low latency Dedicated Cloud Access services and OCI FastConnect, customers can privately connect to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, bypassing the public internet and supporting multi region architectures for business continuity and disaster recovery. Colt is already an established OCI FastConnect partner in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. Peter Coppens, VP – Product, Colt Technology Services said, “Data sovereignty is a priority for businesses in Europe. Together, Colt and Oracle are helping give organizations a resilient, future ready approach to sovereign cloud in the region while balancing regulatory assurance with real world performance.” High-performance connectivity options With OCI, customers benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance and global pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to the cloud quickly and efficiently. OCI’s extensive ecosystem of more than 110 OCI FastConnect global and regional partners provide dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud Regions and services, giving organizations flexible, high-performance connectivity options anywhere in the world. OCI is designed to run any application faster, and more securely, for less. As the only hyperscaler capable of delivering 200+ AI and cloud services at the edge, in a customer’s datacentre, across clouds, or in the public cloud, OCI also helps address a variety of data privacy, sovereign AI, and low latency requirements. In addition, Oracle’s distributed cloud delivers the benefits of the cloud with greater control and flexibility while also providing the consistent performance, SLAs, and global pricing for which OCI has become known.

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, and Ciena, the global pioneer in high-speed connectivity, have completed one of the fastest quantum safe data transmissions ever demonstrated and the fastest across a transatlantic route. The landmark trial successfully protected live data running across 6900km of Colt’s subsea and terrestrial network between New York and London with Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) encryption solution. The trial proved that data can be securely transmitted at an 800Gb Ethernet (GbE) service rate - fast enough to move data centre scale volumes across the Atlantic in seconds - while remaining protected against growing quantum threats. Busiest data corridors Businesses are moving now to protect their data from “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, in which bad actors intercept and store data in transit waiting for future quantum computing capabilities to break through traditional data encryption methods to access it. This could be possible as early as 2030. According to research, 69% of organizations believe quantum computing poses a real risk to current encryption and 46% believe large portions of their data could be compromised. The successful Colt and Ciena trial demonstrates that high-speed quantum-safe connectivity is ready to secure customer data reliably across continents, along one of the world’s busiest data corridors. Quantum-safe encryption trials The trial is the latest in a series of quantum-safe encryption trials led by Colt across transatlantic subsea networks and stands out due to its: Speed: 800GbE is still at the very early adoption stage as most deployed long haul and subsea systems today run at 100GbE or 400GbE. The trial successfully showcased an 800GbE encrypted service across the Atlantic on one of the most popular routes in the world Security: Ciena’s WL6e 1.6T quantum-safe encryption solution on the Waveserver platform offers PQC algorithms enabling high capacity secure connectivity that can function at extreme bandwidths over any distance. Performance: the trial demonstrated outstanding optical performance, stability over subsea infrastructure and readiness to secure AI traffic demands Next generation security Buddy Bayer, chief operating officer, Colt Technology Services said, “Quantum computing is redefining the security challenge for global connectivity. This trial marks a significant step forward in protecting the world’s data as it moves across continents. It proves that quantum safe protection can be delivered at real world scale.” “Colt’s infrastructure combines global reach, sustained investment and robust security, giving businesses, hyperscalers and neoscalers the confidence to grow. At the same time, Ciena’s quantum safe solutions show how next generation security can be embedded into high speed networks, ensuring protection keeps pace with performance. Together, we’re helping customers protect critical data today while preparing for the quantum era, building future ready networks that simply work, and are secure, scalable and ready to power the AI economy.” Optical network trials Dino DiPerna, senior vice president, Global Research and Development, Ciena said, “As network demand surges, operators are raising the security bar to stay ahead of the threat posed by quantum computers. This Colt-Ciena trial shows how post-quantum cryptography and proven high-performance optical encryption can play an important role in protecting high-speed services over real-world long-haul and submarine networks, helping secure critical in-flight data across any distance.” Following this and other successful optical network trials, Colt can offer quantum-safe services to meet a diverse range of customer needs. These include solutions based on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Symmetric Key Infrastructure (SKI), and hybrid models, across both terrestrial and subsea networks. Quantum-safe integration The solutions are ideal for organizations including: Enterprises seeking resilient and secure global connectivity and reducing compliance risk Global content providers, hyperscalers and neoscalers exploring quantum-safe integration Financial institutions and healthcare providers requiring robust protection for sensitive data in transit Government and defense organizations prioritising national security and compliance Colt and Ciena have a strong track record of collaborating to drive customer success. The latest trial follows an announcement in 2025 highlighting the rollout of a powerful new terabit network to support two hyperscaler customers/global content providers, and the completion of the world’s first 1.2 terabit per second wavelength transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, announced by Colt and Ciena in November 2024.