Manchester Datacenter Connects Networks To Amsterdam
AMS-IX, IX Reach and UK Grid have today announced details of a collaboration to enable customers in the North of England to connect directly to AMS-IX from UK Grid's carrier neutral data centre, Manchester One @ Synergy House.
Online, September 19, 2011 (Newswire.com) - AMS-IX, IX Reach and UK Grid have today announced details of a collaboration to enable customers in the North of England to connect directly to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange AMS-IX from UK Grid's carrier neutral data centre, Manchester One @ Synergy House.
The three-way partnership has been formed to facilitate immediate peering and connectivity to 457 connected AMS-IX customers from UK Grid's Manchester One @ Synergy House data centre. This makes Manchester One @ Synergy House - the first data centre to be 'AMS-IX Enabled' under the new program being launched by AMS-IX.
Being 'AMS-IX enabled' allows UK Grid to offer their customers direct point to point Ethernet connections into AMS-IX using IX Reach's pre-configured International capacity between Manchester and Amsterdam.
The partnership with IX Reach allows any network present in Manchester One @ Synergy House - to connect to AMS-IX in a very cost effective way with capacity readily available starting from 100Mbps and up to multiple 10Gbps. IX Reach provides an SLA that guarantees 24/7 monitoring and maintenance of each connection they provide to AMS-IX via their UK based Network Operations Centre (NOC).
"Manchester is a fast growing city in Northern Europe with continuous influence in the telecoms market which makes it one the key cities that has captured our attention so we are very pleased to be partnering with AMS-IX and UK Grid to offer our signature cost effective solution to connect AMS-IX to all the existing networks in the North of England" said Monica O'Meany, CEO of IX Reach. "We have been a partner of AMS-IX for many years and have multiple International customers who use our streamlined and straight forward approach to access one of largest Internet Exchanges in the World. AMS-IX Ports have already been allocated in UK Grid and we are looking forward to connecting our first network under this new initiative".
Cara Mascini AMS-IX Chief Marketing Officer said, "With over 450 Internet related companies connected, AMS-IX provides unique peering possibilities beyond borders. For customers taking just one connection at UK Grid's data centre, the AMS-IX route server ensures that over 300 parties can potentially be reached from day one by only one peering session. When entering new regions it's vital for AMS-IX to work with partners that can deliver on quality and service and it's a bonus when we find a collaboration of parties who complement each other - UK Grid and IX Reach fit the bill perfectly."
Now offering private connections to AMS-IX, UK Grid's Manchester One data centre is a carrier neutral facility offering Tier III SLA's. The data centre provides colocation solutions within 25,000sq ft of data centre space and recent expansion has delivered capacity for up to 300 further racks.
Rob Garbutt, UK Grid CEO comments, "This is exciting news for both UK Grid, British interested networks and our customers. UK Grid has always placed high value on strong relationships with reputable and proactive partners such as IX Reach and AMS-IX to deliver business class solutions to our own clients. Again we've shown that through these partnerships we can continue to be a pioneer in the colocation market place."
From today, AMS-IX connections can be delivered directly to UK Grid colocation client equipment via single cross connects via IX Reach equipment.
About AMS-IX
AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange - is a neutral and independent Internet exchange based in Amsterdam-The Netherlands since the early 1990's. AMS-IX has more than 450 Interconnected global networks and traffic peak of over 1300 Gbps (1.3 Terabit per second), making it one of the most diverse and largest Internet Exchanges in the World. The AMS-IX platform provides a professional, high quality, non-blocking peering services for all types of IP traffic, be it regular IP data such as e-mail or web content, to also video/TV and voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX) and the first interconnection of IPX networks (Inter-IPX).
More information on: http://www.ams-ix.net
For more information about AMS-IX, please contact AMS-IX marketing:
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About IX Reach
IX Reach is a Telecoms company that specialises in creating tailored solutions, offering a full range of network connectivity services, data centre colocation and enterprise IP products. Our international network extends to cover over 25 major cities in Europe and America. IX Reach's aim is to help customers to extend their network footprint quickly and cost effectively so that they can connect to International Internet Exchange points in a fast, flexible and reliable way. We deliver traffic from anywhere to anywhere so that all network operators can benefit irrespective of size and location. For more information please email enquiries@ixreach.com or visit our website www.ixreach.com
About UK Grid
UK Grid provides carbon neutral, carrier neutral colocation solutions across four data centre facilities in London and Manchester. With over 300 clients and 75,000sq ft total data centre space, this makes UK Grid one of the largest independent colocation suppliers in the United Kingdom. UK Grid offset all CO2 emissions through environmental projects, are members of the Green Grid and are certified to ISO27001, IS09001 and ISO14001. UK Grid were named in the UK's top 10 fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte (Fast 50). For further information please contact sales@ukgrid.net, call 0845 260 4743 or visit www.ukgrid.net