Lisbon, Portugal & New York, USA – October 3, 2024 Altice Wholesale Solutions, the business unit responsible for developing and managing international telecommunications services, and DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator, announce a strategic partnership to extend the reach of DE-CIX’s IX in Lisbon, reinforcing the Portuguese capital’s position as one of the most recent European telecommunications hubs. The collaboration was announced at the first edition of Atlantic Convergence in Lisbon, a conference that aims to unite visionaries, knowledge owners, power users, and digital infrastructure architects from both sides of the Atlantic.
This partnership will allow Altice LDV’s customers to swiftly interconnect with the thousands of networks – both local and global – already present on the DE-CIX platform and help grow the already largest neutral interconnection ecosystem in Southern Europe.
The new Altice LDV data center presents itself as the open and carrier neutral alternative for interconnection of networks in Lisbon. Located in the center of an area full of telecommunications infrastructure, it gives its customers easy connectivity between the facility and cable landing stations, teleports, other data centers and long-haul terrestrial networks.
For DE-CIX, this will become its third premium enabled site in Lisbon, extending its carrier and data center neutral ecosystem across the region and beyond.
“We are happy to partner with Altice Wholesale Solutions to implement another enabled site for DE-CIX Lisbon. 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,” said Theresa Bobis, Regional Director Southern Europe at DE-CIX. “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. 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,” says Alexander Freese, Altice Chief Operations Officer.
The Portuguese coast has always been strategic to generate connections, as it is the gateway to Europe, the Atlantic and Africa. The ecosystem is now showing signs of fast growth with new submarine cables like Equiano, 2Africa or Medusa reaching Lisbon shores, new satellite gateways being hosted on its metro area teleport, investment in new long haul fiber routes and new data center projects being developed. All this adds to an already rich environment.
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About DE-CIX
DE-CIX is the world’s leading operator of Internet Exchanges (IXs). DE-CIX offers its interconnection services close to 60 locations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Asia. Accessible from data centers in over 600 cities world-wide, DE-CIX interconnects thousands of network operators (carriers), Internet service providers (ISPs), content providers and enterprise networks from more than 100 countries, and offers peering, cloud, and other interconnection services. DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world, with a data volume of almost 40 Exabytes per year (as of 2023) and close to 1100 connected networks. Close to 250 colleagues from over 35 different nations form the foundation of the DE-CIX success story in Germany and around the world. Since the beginning of the commercial Internet, DE-CIX has had a decisive influence – in a range of leading global bodies, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) – on co-defining guiding principles for the Internet of the present and the future. As the operator of critical IT infrastructure, DE-CIX bears a great responsibility for the seamless, fast, and secure data exchange between people, enterprises, and organizations at its locations around the globe.
Further information at www.de-cix.net.
About Altice Wholesale Solutions
Altice Wholesale Solutions, a business unit of MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, S.A., part of Altice Portugal, is responsible for developing and managing a range of services dedicated to the telecommunications industry, namely CSP, ISP, Content Providers or Pure Wholesalers.
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