Telia Carrier announced the launch of a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) at Telxius’ interconnection rich Derio Communications Hub located near Bilbao, Spain. The agreement enhances Telia Carrier’s fiber backbone and connectivity for customers seeking gateway access to a new and diverse path from the Americas to Europe with low latency and high capacity between the two continents.
Strategically placed in Northern Spain, only a few kilometers away from MAREA’s submarine cable landing station, the carrier-neutral Derio Communications Hub is a combination of an expanded cable landing station and a fully-fledged PoP.
It is designed to leverage the full potential of MAREA and connect it to the main communications hubs in Europe. The Derio Communications Hub has an open architecture, offering high interconnection capacity as well as IP, capacity, colocation and security services.
Customers in the region can take advantage of Telia Carrier’s global backbone, AS1299, as well as the local availability of high-speed IP Transit, Cloud Connect, DDoS mitigation, Ethernet and Internet Exchange (IX) Connect for operators, content providers and enterprises. The expansion connects to Telia Carrier’s terabit scale DWDM networks extending throughout Europe and the Americas.
Telxius’ Derio facilities leverage the full capacity of MAREA connecting to key communication hubs in London, Madrid, Marseille and Paris, providing customers with unprecedented levels of interconnection. Furthermore, to fully maximize Derio’s reach, Telxius is finalizing two direct backhaul connections straight to Paris and Madrid, leveraging existing Telxius infrastructure.
