A map of Interxion's data center locations throughout Europe.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European colocation provider Interxion (www.interxion.com) announced on Thursday that France-based Internet Exchange, France-IX (www.france-ix.net) is now operational in its Paris data centers.
The announcement comes just over a year after the company opened its fifth and sixth data centers in the Paris area.
France-IX, with the support of its founding members – Google, Akamai, Jaguar Network, and Neo Telecoms, has partnered with the PANAP exchange to migrate all of its customers to France-IX in 2010 and for SFINX Internet Exchange to interconnect to France-IX.
This will make it the country’s largest exchange representing over 70 percent of French Internet Exchange traffic.
The exchange is projected to carry more than 100Gbps of traffic by the end of the year.
This partnership will give Interxion’s French customers the widest range of peering opportunities available, reducing latency and transit costs.
Meanwhile, France-IX members will be able to expand their applications infrastructure at Interxion’s secure Paris data center campus.
The launch of France-IX further enhances Interxion’s connectivity offer with 18 of Europe’s leading public Internet Exchanges connecting at Interxion facilities.
These Internet Exchange partners give access to over 2,000 ISPs and provide cost-effective peering opportunities to customers across Europe.
In addition to France-IX, Interxion also has Internet Exchange partnerships with SFINX, PARIX, FREEIX, and PANAP at Interxion’s six facilities in Paris, which represents a total of 42,640 square feet of data center space.
“Since its founding in 1998, Interxion has been an active promoter of public Internet peering-points across Europe, helping Internet Exchanges develop their infrastructures and providing our customers the best access to networks,” says Kevin Dean, Interxion CMO. “We are pleased to be supporters of this broad-based and popular initiative. From the start, Interxion has played an active role in jump-starting this project that will lead France’s efforts for a strong national Internet Exchange, enabling Paris to join the top tier of Europe’s Internet interconnection hubs.”
