NEWS
Orange and
Telxius to connect
the US to France
with Dunant
submarine cable
range, one of the world’s leading
telecommunications operators
and major investor in over 40
submarine cables, has teamed up with
Telxius, the communications infrastructure
company of the Telefónica Group, to
collaborate in Europe and the US on
backhaul extensions for the Dunant cable,
a Google project.
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The Atlantic is one of the world’s busiest
network routes and the Dunant cable will
address the massive growth in data and
content needs between Europe and the US.
This 6,600km-long transatlantic cable will
connect the US to the French Atlantic coast
and aims to launch services in late 2020.
Under this agreement, Orange and
Telxius offer co-location services at their
respective Cable Landing Stations in Saint-
Hilaire-de-Riez (France) and Virginia Beach
(US) and operate them. Both are strategic
locations as they are located near main
connectivity hubs on both sides of the
Atlantic. From its Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez
Cable Landing Station, Orange will enable
terrestrial connection to Telxius up to
Paris, while Telxius will connect Orange to
Ashburn from Virginia Beach.
Jerome Barré, CEO of Orange Wholesale
and International Networks, said: “We
are pleased to announce this agreement
with Telxius, which will allow us to
provide our customers with very high
capacity end-to-end services, as well as
network redundancy, on the strategic
transatlantic route.”
Connectria adds GDPR-compliant
cloud data centre in Amsterdam
onnectria, a global provider
of managed cloud services
and cloud hosting, has
announced that it has expanded
its IBM i Cloud Hosting, VMware
Cloud Hosting and data centre
operations into the European
Union (EU) with the addition of
a GDPR-compliant data centre
in the Equinix Amsterdam Metro
International Business Exchange in
the Netherlands.
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“More than a third of our
customers have operations in
the EU or the Middle East,” said
Rusty Putzler, Connectria’s Vice
President and COO. “We chose
Equinix in Amsterdam to add an
IBM i Cloud and VMware Cloud
data centre because it’s one of
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the best data centres in the world,
located in the commercial heart of
Europe with more than 250 network
providers serving the data centre. This
facility provides a perfect location
for organisations that want their
IBM i and VMware systems to reside
within the EU in a GDPR-compliant
data centre, backed by Connectria’s
industry-leading IBM i and VMware
managed services and support.”
“We’re very excited to be expanding
into Europe,” said Rich Waidmann,
Connectria’s Founder, President
and CEO. “We’ve been planning our
expansion into Europe for several
years and the dynamic growth of our
IBM i and VMware Cloud business has
enabled us to take the first step to have
data centres worldwide.”
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