Zen Internet

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Coordinates: 53°36′10.08″N 2°9′36.3594″W / 53.6028, -2.160099833

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Zen Internet Ltd

Type	Limited
Founded	(1995)
Headquarters	Rochdale, England
Key people	Richard Tang (Managing Director) Gary Hough (Operations Manager) Stuart Birchall (Technical Services Director)
Industry	Internet
Products	Internet Services
Employees	234 (Feb 2007)
Website	http://www.zen.co.uk

Zen Internet is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England.

1 History
2 Market position
3 Products
4 Technology
5 References
6 External links

History

Founded in 1995 by Managing Director Richard Tang, Zen Internet was one of the first Internet Service Providers in the UK. Zen began by providing Internet access to schools and small businesses in the Rochdale area. It has since moved from 2 employees in 1995 to 209 at the start of 2006 and in 2004 achieved an annual turnover of £14.2 million along with a customer base of more than 77,000 broadband users nationwide. [1]

In 2006, the company won several awards at the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) annual awards ceremony. These awards were: "best business ISP", "best heavy business broadband", and "best uncontended service".^[1]

Market position

Zen has always focused on the UK business market although it does have a large consumer broadband customer base.

Products

Zen have six main product areas:

Broadband
- ADSL
- SDSL
- DSL Hardware

Security services
- UTM Firewalls
- Content Filtering

Domain & Hosting services

Leased Lines
- Access (Up to 2 Mbit/s)
- Ethernet (2 Mbit/s - 1 Gbit/s)
- Private WAN

Web Solutions
- Web Site Design and Build
- Search Engine Promotion
- Intranet/Extranet Site Design and Build

Voice over IP
- Zen Wholesale Voice
- Zen Broadband Voice

Technology

Powered by Redback, Foundry, Juniper and Cisco hardware the Zen core network spans over 7 POPs, two in their home town of Rochdale, Telecity in Manchester, two in Telehouse in London, and recently expanded into the US at TelX in New York connected via an STM-16 trans-Atlantic link provided by Hibernia Atlantic [2]; a 6th POP is available in Leeds.

They are a member of the major UK peering points including LINX, LONAP, ManNAP and in New York they are members of NYIIX and PAIX. In 2005 they unbundled the Rochdale exchange followed by the Bury, Oldham and Blackfriars exchanges in 2006 to provide an LLU service to local residents and Businesses; they are also working with the BBC to provide access to the BBC's multicast broadcasting trials [3].[4]