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INTERXION GROWS DATA
CENTRE OPERATIONS
WITH SCALABLE, AGILE
DCI NETWORKS
Interxion deployed a next-
generation DCI solution
from Ciena to scale its
data centre operations in
Marseille, an important
hub connecting North
Africa, the Middle East,
Asia and Europe.
W
hen Interxion decided to
expand its operations in
Marseille, real-estate and
power constraints led the company to
build a second data centre four kilometres
from the original site and connect the two
facilities with a super-fast Data Centre
Interconnect (DCI) network.
This allowed Interxion to create a single
virtualised data centre campus, giving
its clients light-speed access to subsea
cables, platforms, connectivity providers
and other partners at both sites.
Challenge: Interxion wanted to
expand its data centre operations
in Marseille, but no suitable real
estate and power source were
available next to its original location
Marseille is a hugely important
communications centre, connecting
North Africa, the Middle East and Asia to
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
the whole of Europe thanks to terrestrial
connections to Frankfurt, London,
Amsterdam and Paris (FLAP).
With 14 subsea cables landing there, the
city has transformed from a transit hub
to a lively content hub where cloud and
digital media content are created, stored
and distributed to 43 countries across
EMEA and APAC.
In addition, the rapidly growing local
market for data centre services presents
major revenue opportunities. For these
reasons, leading carrier and cloud-
neutral data centre operator Interxion
made Marseille a strategic focus for
its business.
Mike Hollands, Interxion’s Director of
Market Development and Strategy, said:
“We acquired a 6,200 m2 data centre in
the centre of Marseille in 2014, which is
called MRS1.
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