Barcelona will become from 2024 the engine of the new Medusa submarine cable system. It will therefore be the complementary gateway for data traffic between Europe and Africa together with Marseille.
DE-CIX celebrates the first anniversary of its appearance in Barcelona by announcing a strategic agreement with AFR-IX Telecomwhich manages the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS)interconnection enclave for submarine cables.
From now on this point will be the new location of DE-CIX next to bitNAP, equinix Y EdgeConneXexpanding the neutral interconnection ecosystem of operators and data centers.
Did you know that DE-CIX has increased the presence of connected networks in Barcelona by more than 25%? And all this is the result of its synergy and connection work with network operators (carriers), Internet service providers (ISP), content providers, companies from Andorra and Catalonia and all kinds of global players such as Google or Microsoft.
Barcelona now becomes a international digital hub in the heart of the Mediterranean and in the words of Ivo IvanovCEO of DE-CIX, allows the connectivity between local and global players from Europe and Africa improves markedly.
Optimistic reactions regarding the future of the telecommunications market have also come from the other side. Norman Albi, CEO of AFR-IX Telecom assures that the arrival of DE-CIX demonstrates, once again, that Barcelona CL is the benchmark submarine cable port in the Mediterranean.
Therefore, there is still a commitment to the incipient improvement in technology in this area, they will end up new investments from external companies which will further improve the digital ecosystem that is being created and that is being key to the future of Catalonia and the whole of southern Europe.
DE-CIX Barcelona connects directly with DE-CIX Frankfurtthe company’s benchmark, allowing Catalan companies to have imminent access to one of the largest Cloud Exchange that exists all over the world.
The capacity of DE-CIX
DE-CIX was founded in 1995, being its branch of Frankfurt one of the largest Internet exchange points with more than 1,000 connected networks and a traffic flow of more than 12 Terabits per second.
What is its power? The capacity of your network exceeds 90 Terabits.
Present in more than forty locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America, it offers interconnection and peering services to operators, content networks and Internet service providers in more than a hundred countries.
Its presence in the Iberian Peninsula in Madrid, Lisbon Y Barcelona has made it become a power in southern Europe. Going further, Madrid is managing traffic flows of more than 1 Terabit per second.
DE-CIX Southern Europe it is unbeatable as a neutral interconnection system. And how is this achieved? Thanks to its merger with DE-CIX Marseille Y DE-CIX Palermo and its 470 networks connected in 13 different data centers.
From there, DE-CIX Southern Europe interconnects with local, regional and global networks from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
