How AMVIA Scaled Managed Connectivity for Cubo's Co-working Network

Cubo operates a growing network of premium co-working spaces across the UK. For a serviced office operator, connectivity is not a back-office utility — it is part of the product members pay for. A slow or unreliable line directly affects member retention. AMVIA was engaged to take ownership of the full connectivity estate and make every new site repeatable.

What was the challenge for Cubo?

Cubo ran each site on its own terms: separate carriers, different contract terms, mismatched hardware, and no central view of network performance. When a site had a problem, diagnosing and resolving it was slow. As the business opened new locations, every launch became a bespoke project rather than a repeatable process.

The operations team needed one managed service provider to own the whole estate — circuits, hardware, faults, and monitoring. The commercial backdrop made this harder. Market pricing for a 1 Gbps leased line starts from £129/month depending on provider and postcode, with alternative carriers clustered lower than incumbents — so circuit selection had to be made site by site, not by defaulting to a single national carrier.

What did AMVIA do for Cubo?

AMVIA ran a connectivity audit across every Cubo site, reviewing existing circuits, hardware and contract positions, then designed one standardised architecture: a 1 Gbps dedicated leased line at each location, backed by 4G failover, all managed centrally. The goal was one accountable provider for the entire network.

Rather than forcing the same carrier everywhere, AMVIA used its multi-carrier platform to source the best dedicated internet access circuit at each postcode — comparing Openreach, CityFibre and alternative carriers for the fastest-to-provision, most cost-effective option. This carrier-agnostic approach is the core of how AMVIA delivers multi-site connectivity without a one-size-fits-all compromise.

Every site also gained resilience through backup connectivity: a 4G failover router alongside the primary circuit, so a carrier fault no longer meant total loss of service for members.

What technology did AMVIA deploy?

Each Cubo site was built to one hardware standard: a dedicated 1 Gbps leased line (carrier selected per site), a Cisco Meraki MX router with 4G failover, and Cisco Meraki MR Wi-Fi access points. Wi-Fi was segmented into separate networks for members, Cubo staff, and back-office systems.

Network segmentation like this is a baseline control under the UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme — keeping guest, staff and management traffic apart limits how far any single compromise can spread. AMVIA, which holds Cyber Essentials Plus, builds that separation in by default rather than bolting it on later.

Performance data from every site feeds into AmviaIQ for unified monitoring — bandwidth analytics, uptime tracking and anomaly detection across the estate. Combined with the Meraki dashboard, Cubo's IT contact and AMVIA's network team see every site from one place, with automated alerting and remote troubleshooting for minor issues — no engineer call-out required. For multi-site operators that want connectivity and security managed together, this mirrors AMVIA's SD-WAN approach.

What were the results for Cubo?

The standardised managed service changed how Cubo's network runs. New-site activation fell from the 60+ days of individual carrier negotiation and hardware procurement to a repeatable, templated deployment that AMVIA manages end to end — under 30 days from contract to live connectivity across six sites. Managed leased lines with 4G failover delivered 99.99% measured availability across the network in the 12 months after deployment, with failover typically activating within 30 seconds of a primary circuit fault.

Cubo's operations team gained central visibility instead of reacting to individual site issues. AMVIA handles all carrier relationships, fault management and hardware maintenance — a single point of contact and a consistent experience across the full estate.

How does this Cubo case study apply to your business?

Any multi-site UK business — co-working operators, retail chains, professional-services firms with branch offices — faces the same problem Cubo did: inconsistent connectivity, fragmented contracts and no single owner. A templated, carrier-agnostic managed service makes each new site as predictable as the last.

As the UK communications regulator, Ofcom oversees the business connectivity market that AMVIA navigates on customers' behalf — comparing carriers so you don't have to. One provider, security-first, with Microsoft-certified engineers, removes the overhead of managing circuits, hardware and faults across a growing estate.