This partnership will allow Altice Wholesale Solutions customers housed in Linda-a-Velha to quickly interconnect with the thousands of networks - local and global - already present on the DE-CIX platform and will help expand what is today the largest neutral interconnection ecosystem in southern Europe. For DE-CIX, this will be its third premium site in Lisbon, expanding its neutral operator and data center ecosystem in the region.
"We are excited about the partnership with Altice Wholesale Solutions, which will allow us to expand DE-CIX's reach and strengthen the ecosystem in Portugal, an important hub for submarine cables and interconnections and gateway to the Iberian Peninsula and all of Europe," said Theresa Bobis, Regional Director for Southern Europe at DE-CIX. "The distributed design of the DE-CIX platform allows local and international networks to exchange data traffic closer to end users, ensuring lower latency and greater resilience, promoting increasing levels of digitization through easy access to content and applications."
"We are very pleased to have the DE-CIX platform available to our customers at the International Networking and Interconnection Center in Linda-a-Velha. With DE-CIX's impressive worldwide presence and the connectivity provided by our International Network and Interconnection Center, we will certainly boost the number of networks present and interconnected in Lisbon," says Alexander Freese, Chief Operations Officer at Altice Portugal.
About DE-CIX
DE-CIX is the world's leading operator of Internet Exchanges (IXs). DE-CIX offers its interconnection services to close to 60 locations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East and Asia. Accessible from data centers in more than 600 cities around the world, DE-CIX interconnects thousands of network operators (carriers), Internet service providers (ISPs), content providers and corporate networks in more than 100 countries, and offers peering, cloud and other interconnection services. DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the world's largest Internet Exchanges, with a data volume of almost 40 Exabytes per year (in 2023) and around 1100 connected networks. Close to 250 employees from more than 35 different nations form the basis of DE-CIX's success story in Germany and around the world. Since the dawn of the commercial Internet, DE-CIX has had a decisive influence - in various leading global bodies such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - in co-defining the guiding principles for the Internet of today and tomorrow. As an operator of critical IT infrastructure, DE-CIX has a major responsibility for the seamless, fast and secure exchange of data between people, companies and organizations at their locations around the globe.
About Altice Wholesale Solutions
Altice Wholesale Solutions, a business unit of MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia, S.A., part of Altice Portugal, is responsible for developing and managing a range of services dedicated to the telecommunications industry, including communications and internet service providers, content and cloud services and wholesalers. With the continuous growth in demand for digital connectivity at a global level, low latency, resilience and scalability have become key words for telecommunications networks and Portugal is key to addressing these issues. Its geographical location allows the country to be a hub for data interconnection and processing between Europe and the Atlantic and between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.