Telxius, Interxion partner for data center access to Dunant submarine cable system

Data center services provider Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) says it has arranged connectivity for its Paris facility with the Dunant transatlantic submarine cable system through an agreement with TELXIUS. TELXIUS owns capacity on the submarine network and is providing backhaul services from Dunant’s cable landing stations in collaboration with Orange (see “Orange, Telxius team for terrestrial backhaul for Dunant submarine cable”).

The 6600-km Dunant submarine cable, spearheaded by Google, is positioned as the first new undersea cable link between the U.S. and France since 2005 (see “TE SubCom to deploy Dunant submarine cable system for Google”). The tie-up between Interxion and TELXIUS will extend access to the former’s PlatformDIGITAL data center platform while offering the latter a centralized point of connection to Dunant for its customers. Interxion’s Paris campus features seven data centers and is being expanded via the Interxion Paris Digital Park project. All Interxion customers across the world will be able to link to the Paris facility to interconnect to Telxius’s network capacity on Dunant, the companies say.

Dunant achieved ready-for-service status earlier this year (see "Google’s Dunant SDM-enabled submarine cable system ready for service").

“The next-generation connectivity that Telxius offers to our customers via Dunant will greatly enhance the ability of PlatformDIGITAL to help enterprises overcome the transatlantic data gravity barriers inhibiting their digital transformation goals,” commented Fabrice Coquio, managing director of Interxion France. “Telxius’s ultra-high capacity services, improved communication reliability and faster network performance to the U.S. are now available directly from our Paris digital business hub.”

“Ensuring our customers can easily access the services we provide over Dunant is key for us,” added Carlos Casado, head of EMEA sales, Telxius, Cable Business. “By extending the Dunant capabilities directly into Interxion in Paris, we make it more efficient and simpler for customers to interconnect onto the system, while at the same time integrating it with the internet highways connecting Paris to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Marseille.

“Telxius also provides direct Marea backhaul capacity from its Derio Communications Hub in Bilbao to Paris, Madrid, and Virginia Beach. It means that, in combination with our existing transatlantic capacity on the Marea subsea cable system, Telxius now supports customers with state-of-the-art, diverse routes across the Atlantic,” Casado added.

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