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SoGEA Broadband

Connect In Cloud delivers this simplified service, providing your business with ultra-reliable broadband access without the need for a traditional phone line or managing multiple suppliers.

What is SoGEA broadband?

SoGEA, which stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access, is a broadband service designed to provide your business with everything needed to connect to the internet.

The key features and benefits of SoGEA broadband, delivered by Connect In Cloud, include:

  • Performance: It delivers the same performance and data levels as FTTC (fibre to the cabinet).

  • Simplicity & Cost: It removes the need for the installation of a traditional phone line, making it a cost-effective alternative to broadband without including an unwanted phone line.

  • Speed: SoGEA broadband offers speeds of up to $80\text{Mbs}$.

  • Consolidation: The service can be combined with a VoIP service (such as Horizon or PhoneLine+) to consolidate your phone and broadband service into one connection, allowing you to transfer your old phone number and business broadband service into one connection.

What is the benefit of a SoGEA line?

Reliable and cost effective

Connect In Cloud delivers SoGEA broadband with download speeds of up to $80\text{Mbs}$, leveraging the same reliable fibre technology as FTTC. Eliminate billing worries: all packages include an ‘unmetered’ usage policy, providing the freedom to use unlimited data under a single, predictable monthly rental charge.

One supplier, one point of contact

Connect In Cloud delivers SoGEA as a simplified, broadband-only solution. You save money by bypassing the traditional landline, and the single-order process makes installation straightforward. Furthermore, you benefit from a single point of contact for all your service queries moving forwards.

Future-proof

The UK network is transitioning from the traditional PSTN to a full fibre infrastructure. Connect In Cloud guides your business through this digital transformation, providing fast, reliable, and cost-effective connectivity. Our SoGEA broadband solution ensures your business stays connected and prepared for the inevitable shift to an all-digital future.

Features of SoGEA Broadband

One line, no PSTN line

SoGEA is a dedicated internet line that bypasses the traditional PSTN phone line, using resilient fibre technology (like FTTC). Connect In Cloud eliminates the need for two separate orders by consolidating phone and broadband into a single order via VoIP. Adopt SoGEA now, ahead of the inevitable PSTN switch-off over the next few years.

SoGEA broadband is fast and reliable

Connect In Cloud delivers SoGEA broadband, which uses fibre-based technology from the local exchange to the PCP (green street cabinets) to your premises. This provides fast speeds of up to $80\text{Mbps}$ and greater stability than traditional copper lines. SoGEA offers a more reliable connection with a much lower risk of downtime, making it the perfect alternative to PSTN for any business.

Get up and running with ease with a SoGEA line

Connect In Cloud will have you up and running in no time, with a quick installation and reliable connection. Since everything’s in one place, there’s no running around to report and resolve connection issues with multiple suppliers—making life a lot easier. Above all, a SoGEA line guarantees future-proof connectivity as the UK moves to an all-IP network.

Advanced features of VoIP phone systems

SoGEA is designed to meet the growing demand for high speed business broadband without the need for a landline. Created from the Openreach fibre to the cabinet infrastructure, SoGEA broadband can deliver superfast speeds of up to 80Mbps, suitable for business currently running an analogue PSTN line.

Yes, SoGEA broadband uses fibre optic cables from the local exchange to the PCP (the green street cabinets). From the cabinet the service is supplied to your premises using copper cables. Although this “looks like” traditional Fibre Broadband (FTTC), the line coming into the premises is a SoGEA data line not a phone line and therefore won’t be impacted by the PTSN switch off in 2025.

Openreach is updating local telephone exchanges across the country – switching off the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and upgrading to a full fibre network to enable fast, reliable and cost-effective connectivity. SoGEA broadband will ensure your business stays in touch and ready for an all-digital future!

SoGEA stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access and provides your business broadband connection, without the need for a traditional PSTN line which forced businesses to have a connection for both a broadband and phone line. So, rather than having one supplier for your phone line and another for your internet services, SoGEA broadband provides everything you need to connect your business is in one place.

A SoGEA broadband connection provides you with the high-speed fibre broadband only connection you need to run your business efficiently, without the need to connect and pay for a separate phone line. Saving your business time and money! SoGEA lines are replacing the Openreach PSTN network as it is being switch off over the next few years, meaning those who don't switch to a SoGEA line or fibre alternative will lose their business broadband connection when it is inevitably phased out. SoGEA is now available SoGEA broadband lines are available at over 28 million premises around the UK.

Yes, absolutely. using a an internet-based VoIP (voice over internet protocol) telecoms solution – such as PhoneLine+ or Gamma Horizon to run in parallel with SoGEA broadband you will be able to bring your business phone number with you when you switch to a SoGEA line. Your supplier will be able to port your existing business phone number(s) to your new service, providing all of the benefits of a VoIP phone system while maintaining current phone number(s).

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