Internet exchange operator DE-CIX announced a strategic partnership with Altice Wholesale Solutions to extend the reach of its IX in Lisbon, Portugal.
The decision reinforces the city’s position as a European telecommunications hub.
This partnership will allow Altice’s LDV customers to more easily interconnect with thousands of networks, on a local and global scale, that are already present on the DE-CIX platform. This is expected to help grow the already largest neutral interconnection ecosystem in southern Europe.
The new Altice LDV data center offers an open, carrier neutral alternative for interconnection of Lisbon networks. Located in the center of an area full of telco infrastructure, it presents streamlined connectivity between the facility and cable landing stations, teleports, other data centers and long-haul terrestrial networks.
For DE-CIX, it will be the third premium-enabled site in the city, allowing it to extend its carrier and data center neutral ecosystem, both across the region and beyond.
“We are happy to partner with Altice Wholesale Solutions to implement another enabled site for DE-CIX Lisbon,” said De-CIX regional director, southern Europe, Theresa Bobis. “This will extend the reach of the platform and strengthen the ecosystem in Portugal, an important subsea cable and interconnection hub and gateway to the Iberian Peninsula and Europe as a whole. The distributed design of the DE-CIX platform enables local and international networks to exchange data traffic closer to the end-users, ensuring lower latency and greater resilience and promoting increasing levels of digitalization through easy access to content, clouds and applications.”
“We are very pleased to have DE-CIX’s platform available to our customers in Altice LDV,” said Alexander Freese, Altice’s COO. “With DE-CIX’s impressive footprint and with the connectivity brought by this new data center, we will for sure push the number of networks collocated and interconnected in Lisbon.”
