London, 17 January 2012: TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium
carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX
to enable TelecityGroup customers in the UK to directly connect to the Amsterdam Internet
Exchange, AMS-IX, in the only official AMS-IX enabled sites in the UK.
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) such as AMS-IX form an essential part of the global Internet
infrastructure, enabling the large-scale switching of Internet traffic between networks.
Interconnecting over 470 carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other Internet-
related companies, AMS-IX is one of the world’s largest IXPs, providing unique peering
possibilities across Europe and beyond.
All of TelecityGroup’s carrier-neutral data centres in London Docklands and Manchester, in
addition to its London Powergate facility, are now ‘AMS-IX enabled’. They are the only UK
data centres to have this capability, enabling TelecityGroup UK customers to immediately
enjoy the benefits of direct connectivity into AMS-IX.
All of the AMS-IX connections that are originated through this new service will terminate in
the largest AMS-IX node which is located in TelecityGroup’s Amsterdam South-East facility,
which itself is adjacent and directly-connected to TelecityGroup’s new Amsterdam 5 data
centre, due to open in 2012.
By working with IX Reach, which specialises in simplifying connectivity to Internet Exchanges,
TelecityGroup is ensuring that its customers can enjoy direct point-to-point Ethernet
connections into AMS-IX, using IX Reach’s pre-configured international capacity between the
UK and Amsterdam.
Monica O’Meany, CEO of IX Reach comments: “We have been a partner of AMS-IX for many
years and our core network enables us to provide dedicated, highly efficient connections
into AMS-IX. Such wide peering options can vastly reduce upstream costs for Internet-centric companies, and a single connection to an Internet Exchange like AMS-IX may reduce the reliance on multiple transit connections as well as improve end user reliability. We’re very pleased that by working with TelecityGroup and AMS-IX, so many companies in London and Manchester will now be able to enjoy these direct benefits.”
Job Witteman, AMS-IX CEO comments: “TelecityGroup and AMS-IX serve some of the
world’s largest companies in the digital industry including ISPs, international carriers,
mobile operators, content providers, TV broadcasters and many other related businesses in
Amsterdam already. With remote connections into our exchange now available from London
and Manchester through IX Reach, companies in the UK will be able to enjoy the vastly
improved redundancy and network performance benefits that connecting to AMS-IX
brings.”
Adriaan Oosthoek, Managing Director, TelecityGroup UK comments: “Our data centres are
at the heart of the digital economy, and this agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX means
our customers will have even wider connectivity and peering options from our ‘AMS-IX
enabled’ facilities. Whether they are Internet start-ups, content companies, cloud computing
providers, or other companies looking to expand in Europe, this agreement will provide
our customers with vastly enriched connectivity options across the continent. It is another
reflection of our commitment to develop highly connected customer ecosystems in our sites
and to lead the way in delivering new capacity and connectivity to meet customer growth
requirements.”
Around Europe, TelecityGroup’s data centres host a number of key national IXPs, allowing competing networks to interconnect and exchange Internet traffic at national and international level with speed and efficiency at a significant reduction to transit costs. Alongside AMS-IX, these include three other top European IXPs: LINX in London, DE-CIX in Frankfurt and Netnod in Stockholm. TelecityGroup is also a patron of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) which represents over 40 affiliated IXPs.
ABOUT TELECITYGROUP PLC
TelecityGroup is the leading provider of carrier-neutral data centres in Europe, operating
highly connected facilities in key cities.
These data centres are the places in which separate networks that make up the Internet
meet and where bandwidth-intensive applications, content and information is hosted. As
such, they are the key network hubs, or enabling environments, of the European digital
economy. TelecityGroup’s customers take advantage of the highly connected facilities
to run, store, share, distribute and access digital media, IT applications and information
effectively and efficiently.
TelecityGroup has an unrivalled multi-year announced capacity expansion programme in
Europe. Capacity expansion is ongoing in all of the Group’s key markets. This provides its
growing customer base with visibility as to how their needs for capacity can be met into
the future. This is important to many of the Group’s customers as their needs for scalable
capacity are expected to grow due to macro trends, such as the emergence of cloud
computing, whereby an increasing amount of IT infrastructure is being migrated towards
centralised, highly connected data centres.
In addition to organic investments, TelecityGroup aims to make acquisitions within Europe,
either for the purpose of entering new markets, or to provide growth capacity in existing
markets where its data centres are fully occupied.
Telecity Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: TCY).
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About IX Reach
IX Reach is a telecoms company that operates its own international network
reaching over 25 major cities across Europe and North America. IX Reach
specializes in creating bespoke solutions based on point-to-point and point-to-
multipoint connectivity with speeds ranging from 50Mbps up to multiple 10Gbps.
The IX Reach network offers a stable, reliable and flexible platform designed to
support customers such as Internet service providers, other carriers and businesses
needing to grow their network efficiently and quickly. Through its partnerships
with key Internet Exchanges, Datacentres and Cloud operators, IX Reach offers all
the benefits of one simple solution.
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