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“Most of our clients are very sophisticated
and they want to know what the solution
is built on before they trust us with their
mission-critical apps,” says Hollands.
“When they find out that our DCI
network is built on Ciena technology,
we have far fewer questions to answer.
The field-proven reliability of Ciena
equipment and Ciena’s resilient and
diverse network designs are well known
in the industry and it’s a great selling
point for us.”
New connectivity economies of
scale for Interxion and its clients
Interxion has to ensure there are no
disadvantages for clients who are
housed in newer data centres by
requiring very low-cost interconnections
between facilities.
II submarine base. However, if we choose
to expand elsewhere in the city, we will be
able to connect our data centres to create a
single ‘logical’ data centre that gives clients
access to the subsea cables, platforms,
connectivity providers and other partners
they need.”
Scalability to support a rapidly
growing community of clients
Working with Ciena, Interxion has been
able to efficiently use its fibres that
connect the facilities.
“Because we can deploy multiple high-
speed wavelengths on the same fibre
pair, we can reduce the cost our clients
incur for interconnections between data
centres,” said Hollands.
“In fact, we charge clients a single
monthly fee that includes both
interconnections between and within data
centres, with route diversity in-built as
standard to the service.”
Inter-site connectivity is over diverse
routes and diverse infrastructure for the
highest availability.
“Ciena’s DCI solution allows us to scale
many wavelengths on a single fibre pair,”
Hollands said. Fast, simple interconnect
provisioning for clients
“That means we can stay ahead of clients’
interconnection needs for years to come
and manage our fibre capacity efficiently.” With Interxion’s DCI network, clients
can self-provision new interconnections
quickly and easily.
Connectivity that clients
trust implicitly “The DCI solution is integrated into our
existing self-service portal, which allows
clients to provision new interconnections
or scale up their existing services with just
a few clicks,” said Hollands. “We have a
three-day Service Level Agreement (SLA)
at the back end for plugging in the new
To accelerate clients to its new data
centres, Interxion needs to ensure that
interconnections between its facilities
have very high levels of reliability.
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interconnections and there’s a one-day
option available if clients need a new
connection urgently.”
Rapid deployment for the
DCI network
Interxion was able to connect MRS1 and
MRS2 quickly and effectively with end-to-
end project support from Ciena.
“Once we figured out some technical
issues to do with the shape of our rooms
and logistical aspects, it was all very easy
and went very smoothly,” says Hollands.
“We got end-to-end project support from
Ciena, with regular biweekly progress calls.
“We were really pleased with how the
project went, which was great news as we
now know we can collaborate effectively
with Ciena on future projects.”
Support for Interxion’s planned
interconnect solution expansion
across its European operations
Interxion’s Marseille DCI network is a test
case for a much wider interconnect solution
expansion in multiple European cities.
“Marseille was basically our test case for a
much wider deployment strategy for this
kind of interconnect solution,” said Hollands.
“We now plan to deploy Ciena networks
in cities where our data centres are more
than two kilometres apart, which is the
case in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin and
Paris,” he added.
“We are currently working with Ciena
to see how they can help us expand our
operations in all of these cities, where the
best available sites are not next to our
existing data centres.
“At Interxion, our main focus is to
create connected communities of
customers across our footprint and the
solution provided by Ciena fully supports
this vision.” ◊
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