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Interxion Expands London Metro Connect As City Tech Investment Reaches All-Time High
May 27, 2022
The extension of Interxion’s London Metro Connect solution enables customers to improve performance and reduce costs.
LONDON, 27 May 2022 – Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and leading European provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, today announced the extension of its London Metro Connect solution, allowing customers to connect to 12 London data centres and six interconnected colocation and scale data centre campuses across Greater London.
The Connected London project, which initially launched in June last year, enables customers to plug in to several of Interxion’s most highly connected data centres across Greater London and interconnect with carriers, partners, applications and cloud providers via a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection. With the extension of Interxion’s London Metro Connect solution, customers have even more options to reach the world’s leading service and connectivity providers, including 195+ carriers locally, 700+ carriers globally, as well all the leading global cloud providers via direct on-ramps.
The expansion of Interxion’s Metro Connect comes as London – home to three quarters of Fortune 500 companies – achieves its best year ever for tech investment[1], growing 2.3x in 2021 up to £29.4 billion from 2020’s £11.5 billion, the highest growth since 2013 to 2014. Through Interxion’s London Metro Connect solution, customers are expected to be able to cross-connect with more than 200 financial organisations, access on-demand internet exchanges locally and remotely, as well as interconnect with other business peers and communities of interest.
“The extension of our London Metro Connect solution further underlines our commitment to London, providing the city’s thriving tech sector and growing digital economy with the infrastructure it needs to be at the forefront of global digital transformation. By extending the existing 68-mile-high speed fibre cable to encompass more of our highly connected facilities, we’re unlocking digital growth for hundreds of our city’s businesses,” commented Assad Noori, MD, Interxion UK.
Customers will also gain access to Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL®, a first of its kind global data centre platform for scaling digital business, offering customers an ideal meeting point for deploying network hubs. With Interxion’s Network Hub and Data Hub, businesses can be strategic with the deployment of their IT infrastructure, keeping private workloads decentralised and secure, while simultaneously moving customer-facing data to a more central position where it’s needed most.
The expansion of Interxion’s London Metro Connect solution follows the recent launch of Digital Realty’s Global Data Insights Survey, a survey of more than 7,000 C-level executives and business leaders, which found that an overwhelming majority (82%) agree that a global data center provider that is able to offer global coverage, capacity and direct connectivity across major metros on a single data center platform is required to be successful in a world where data is becoming the business agenda.
The technology used by Interxion to connect London’s largest colocation network comprises of dark fibre and ‘Managed Wave’ equipment. This provides a private and upgraded path between the now 12 sites, offering higher performance and quicker speeds of connectivity compared to purchasing bandwidth or leased line capacity on an existing network.
The campuses now connected by the dark fibre and Managed Wave network and their respective data centres are:
City Campus
- Hanbury Street (LON1, LON2, LON 3)
- Oliver’s Yard
Docklands Campus
West London
Crawley Campus
- Crawley (unit 1 and unit 2)
Chessington Campus
Woking Campus
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-tech-sector-achieves-best-year-ever-as-success-feeds-cities-outside-london
About Interxion: A Digital Realty Company
Interxion: A Digital Realty Company is a leading provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre services across EMEA. With more than 700 connectivity providers in 105+ data centres across 13 European countries, Interxion provides communities of connectivity, cloud, and content hubs. As part of Digital Realty, customers now have access to 50 metros across six continents. For more information, please visit interxion.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty's global data center footprint gives customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with 290+ facilities in 50 metros across 26 countries on six continents. For more information, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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