Our engineer fitting a card into a network chassis on the bench.

ALT NET services and logistics for fibre networks

In April 2026 we pre-staged the first of 100+ OLT chassis, with the configs uploaded, for UK-wide upgrades. That's one part of our ALT NET services and logistics, which run from storage and inventory through pre-staging to delivery and installation from the data centre to the kerbside. Our own drivers and crews work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire.

What we do for alt-nets

An alt-net rollout is a lot of small, valuable boxes that have to arrive in the right place, configured, at the right time. We hold the stock, build it, test it, and put it in the cabinet.

What we do

  • Store stock in our Fleet warehouse, long or short term, with every item booked in on the warehouse management system. Orders are generated and emailed.
  • Pre-stage chassis: build, power up and test with remote connectivity, with configs loaded.
  • Move the kit in SKB shock rack cases, which are water-resistant flight cases, so a chassis survives the road and the kerbside.
  • Deliver cabinets and enclosures, and land them with a Hiab where needed.
  • Install devices in cabinets, with basic connections ready for your engineers.
  • Do field installs, from the data centre to the kerbside.
  • Run training days for your teams.
  • Handle manual handling jobs, including the heavy ones.

What we don't do

  • Splice or commission the fibre. Your engineers do that.
  • Own the network. We're the logistics and the hands.

How a rollout runs

A network chassis in its case in the back of our van.
  1. You send us the stock list and the rollout plan.
  2. The kit arrives at our Fleet warehouse and is booked in.
  3. We pre-stage it: build, power up, test and upload the configs.
  4. We pack it in shock rack cases, or move whole cabinets, on our own vehicles.
  5. Our crew delivers and installs, from the data centre to the kerbside.
  6. We hand it to your engineers with the basic connections ready.

The vehicles and the kit

Our vehicles are plain, unsignwritten vehicles with air suspension and tail lifts where needed, which suits kerbside work where you don't want to attract attention. For bigger loads there are Mercedes 18t and 26t trucks.

Cabinet enclosures can be landed with a Hiab. Chassis travel in SKB shock rack cases, and loads are held with straps and shoring bars.

We're ISO 9001:2015 certified and members of the Road Haulage Association. Cover is arranged for each job to the value of your equipment, up to £0.5m without referral.

Public liability is no less than £2 million. See accreditations and our fleet.

Line cards going into a chassis during a build.

Recent alt-net jobs

  • April 2026the first of 100+ chassis pre-staged, with configs uploaded for UK-wide upgrades.
  • February 2025an OLT installed at the kerbside, with the chassis pre-staged and carried in an SKB shockmount rack case.
  • May 2024street data cabinets collected in North Yorkshire. We turned a 2.3 m wide cab on the tail lift of a truck to get it out.
  • May 2024an OLT pre-staged in our warehouse, moved in an SKB shock rack case, and racked with its connections at a kerbside cabinet.

ALT NET questions

Alternative network. It means a fibre broadband provider that isn't one of the big incumbents. You'll see it written alt-net, altnet and ALT NET.

It's the optical line terminal, the chassis at the start of a fibre network that connects to your customers' lines. We pre-stage and install them.

Yes. We build, power up and test in our warehouse with remote connectivity, and load the configs. In April 2026 we started on the first of 100+ chassis.

Yes. We collect, store, move and land cabinets and enclosures, with a Hiab where needed. In May 2024 we collected street data cabinets in North Yorkshire.

Yes, from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, with our own drivers and crews.

Yes. Stock is booked in on the warehouse management system and your orders are generated and emailed. See secure warehousing for IT equipment.

Yes, for your teams, in our warehouse, on kit they'll be fitting.

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