Network-i

Network-i Ltd [1] is a managed services company headquartered in Slough, Berkshire, England. The company owns and operates an international private network designed to exclusively carry videoconferencing traffic.

The company was formed in 1996 as the Internet Service Provider Consortium with a remit to provide reliable core transit facilities. The company changed its name to Network-i in 1998 when the consortium members sold a controlling majority of the shares to the management team, headed by Barry Reynolds, a former finance director at British Gas. Under his stewardship, the company established a carrier class datacentre on Slough Trading Estate and began to offer broadband services and hosting facilities. In early 2000, Reynolds ceded responsibility for running the company to Sandeep Sharma, a conferencing industry veteran.

The company began offering videoconferencing services including multi-point bridging and ISDN gateways in 2004 and has been cited by Videoconferencing Insight Magazine [2] as one of the three best IP networks dedicated to videoconferencing in 2005 and 2006.

In 2006, the company was the first datacenter operator worldwide to gain ISO 27001 accreditation. Network I opened a second Tier III datacenter (as defined by The Uptime Institute) in January 2009.