GX Networks began by offering internet services to corporations. It believed that it had developed the first transatlantic IP backbone running native ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a standard switching technique designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing, and it encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells. This differs from approaches such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet that...

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GX Networks originally started out with major Network Access Points in Washington and San Jose

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

 in the US, London

London

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's LINX

Linx

Linx AB was a railway company which operated inter-Scandinavian passenger trains between 2001 and 2004. Established as a joint venture between the Norwegian State Railways and the Swedish state-owned SJ, Linx operated the routes from Oslo, Norway, to Stockholm, Sweden, and from Oslo via...

 and Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 in Europe.

Brands

Through a series of acquisitions and (de)mergers GX Networks is known through various brands, including: donhost, Gokei, Host Europe, WebFusion, 123-reg and xcalibre (although GX Networks (now WebFusion) only acquired the dedicated server section of the xcalibre brand, with the co-location and cloud hosting moving to 'flexiant'.

Timeline

• April 1997 - Internet Technology Group (ITG) announces the acquisition of Xara Networks Limited in a deal worth £2.65 million.
• September 1997 - Xara Networks, a subsidiary of Internet Technology Group (ITG), relaunched as GX Networks.
• January 2000 - GX Networks became part of Concentric Network.
• September 2000 - Concentric Network merged with Nextlink to form XO Communications
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• 2001 - The UK arm of XO Europe was sold off to form Transigent Limited.
• September 2002 - Zipcom plc acquires Transigent Limited (formerly XO Limited), the parent company of GX Networks in a deal worth approximately £10m.
• October 2002 - Zipcom plc acquired the entire share capital of Transigent Limited the parent company of GX Networks.
• March 2003 - Zipcom plc to changed its name to GX Networks plc.
• July 2003 - GX Networks acquires two more telecoms businesses XTML Limited ("XTML") and Compulink Information eXchange Limited ("CIX"), which were previously part of the Telenor Business Holdings UK Limited Group ("Telenor
  Telenor
  Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...
  
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• September 2003 - GX Networks buy Firstnet Ltd (owners of Liberty Broadband aka Tele2
  Tele2
  Tele2 AB is a major European telecommunications operator, with about 34 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and Internet service provider.- Overview :...
  
  UK)
• September 2003 - Board changes occurred.
• October 2003 - GX Networks plc became Pipex Communications plc to maintain the PIPEX brand after a buy out for £55m.
• 2006 - Pipex Communications acquires Supanetwork, better known as SupaNames.
• March 2008 - Due to Pipex Broadband being sold to Tiscali last year, the company known as Pipex Communications UK Ltd is now known as GX Networks Ltd.
• October 2009 - Further internal re-structuring by Oakley Capital (Owner of GX Networks) after selling Vialtus Solutions and further consolidate the brands of GX Networks by renaming the company after the hosting branch of the firm Webfusion Limited