NEWS
BSO announces acquisition of IX Reach
ward-winning Ethernet network,
cloud and hosting provider BSO
has strengthened its capabilities
within the wholesale telecoms, cloud
and technology sectors with the
acquisition of IX Reach, a global provider
of network services.
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This development significantly reshapes
the marketplace, in particular for cloud
providers, wholesale carriers, CDNs
and data centre operators, and it marks
the latest milestone in BSO’s active
international M&A strategy.
and most recently Africa. Its customer
base includes 300+ carriers, ISPs, content
providers and networks of all sizes and IX
Reach has a diverse partner ecosystem of
more than 70 cloud, IXPs, data centre and
SaaS companies.
IX Reach’s market-leading products and
services include direct connectivity to
cloud, SaaS and IXPs, data centre to
data centre connectivity, flexible SDN
automation, remote peering solutions and
network virtualisation.
This strong market position, when united
with BSO’s network infrastructure and
expertise will enable the group to continue
to invest heavily in R&D and push new
boundaries in product delivery and
provisioning automation.
IX Reach is BSO’s third acquisition in 18
months and follows Apsara Networks,
a leading supplier of radio frequency
connectivity to financial markets,
and PROceau, a high-availability and
business critical managed hosting and
IaaS company.
IX Reach’s diverse network covers 170+
points of presence (POPs) across North
America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East
Telia Carrier brings Cloud Connect to
SUPERNAP in Milan
elia Carrier has announced a
new Cloud Connect PoP in the
SUPERNAP Italia data centre
near Milan, Italy. Telia’s Cloud Connect
service enables customers to connect
directly to cloud service providers
such as Amazon Web Services, Google
Cloud, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud,
with high performance, low latency,
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reliability and security across Telia
Carrier’s extensive global network.
With so many companies choosing to use
the cloud to hold business critical data,
host applications or deploy their own
enterprise apps, reliable, scalable and
low-latency connectivity has become a
mission-critical issue.
Cloud Connect enables businesses
to connect directly to the industry-
leading Telia Carrier fibre backbone and
accelerate cloud services connectivity,
wherever they may be in the world.
With multiple redundant and
geographically diverse connections
to the major clouds and the security
of dedicated MEF CE2.0 certified
Ethernet circuits, Cloud Connect
offers unparalled control, flexibility
and scalability.
“The SUPERNAP data centre is an ideal
location for our Milan PoP,” explained
Davide Binaghi, Managing Director
Telia Carrier Italy. “The facility’s
unparalleled resiliency, reliability and
security matches the commitment we
have to our own infrastructure. We
believe its customer base will greatly
benefit from Telia Carrier’s Cloud
Connect service and we are excited to
work with them.”
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