Global Cloud Xchange, Tampnet partner to support digital demand in Nordics
Hamilton, Bermuda – Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a network service provider powering global connectivity for new media providers, telecom carriers and enterprises, and Tampnet Carrier, a high-speed network operator in the Nordic sector responsible for over 30% of the traffic between Norway, the UK and Europe, announce their partnership to support the increased network demands stemming from the burgeoning data centre market in the Nordics.
Through strategically located network interconnections, GCX and Tampnet provide ample connectivity solutions to support the growing community of data centre customers throughout the Nordics and beyond. The GCX and Tampnet partnership offers a simplified way to expand reach across each company’s network footprint. Through the partnership, GCX customers now have access to enhanced route diversity and new network routes throughout the Nordics utilising Tampnet’s diverse footprint which traverses eight countries, connecting over 40 core data centres across 12 markets throughout Europe and the United States.
In addition, Tampnet’s customers gain access to GCX’s global network which consists of 66,000km of cables spanning 46 countries from North America to Asia, with subsea and terrestrial route diversity and redundancy throughout Europe-Asia and Intra-Asia routes.
“The Nordics region is experiencing rapid data centre growth due to various shifts in the market, including the need for more energy efficient and sustainable facilities. We are excited to partner with Global Cloud Xchange to collaboratively support this growth and offer expanded route options to our customers through GCX’s robust global network,” says Cato Lammenes, vice president of Tampnet Carrier, “All of Tampnet’s routes are based on our own dark fibre and allow us to offer the scalability our customers demand and satisfy their bandwidth and infrastructure needs in our region. Through this partnership, we will further boost our efforts in contributing to a carbon neutral future by offering greater route diversity to access key data centres and interconnection points in the Nordics.”
Subsea networks are the backbone of connectivity and provide international interconnectivity solutions, further fueling data centre growth around the world. Both GCX and Tampnet are fostering a globally accessible ecosystem that further leverages each company’s subsea network assets, allowing customers to design, manage and connect their networks throughout the world.
“We are seeing a shift in the market where mission critical businesses are looking to diversify their network and data centres away from the traditional FLAP-D [Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin] markets due to rising power costs and instabilities across the power grid,” says David Bruce, head of EU/US/APAC at Global Cloud Xchange. “The Nordics is the logical choice due to carbon zero energy generation and many other benefits. This is an opportune partnership, allowing Tampnet to utilise the global reach of GCX’s network whilst at the same time opening up a new and timely region for GCX customers.”
GCX owns and operates privately-owned submarine networks, enabling new media providers, telecom carriers and enterprises to leverage growth opportunities and improve resilience through strategic subsea network capacity and diverse route offerings in high growth markets throughout the world. Tampnet is an independent offshore communications network owner and operator in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico, with additional networks in Canada and Trinidad and Tobago. Beyond its roots in oil/gas and offshore connectivity solutions, Tampnet is a wholesale network operators, providing fully diverse data centre connectivity solutions throughout the Nordics and Scandinavia with connections to Europe.
For more information on GCX, visit Global Cloud Xchange.
For more information on Tampnet, visit Tampnet.
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