(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — European network operator Interoute (www.interoute.com) has expanded into Istanbul, connecting Turkey to the EU’s largest fiber optic network.
Turkey, though still just a candidate for status as an EU country, boasts a large numbers of European companies operating within it, and only a small number of providers cross the border into the EU, making options extremely limited for carriers and businesses.
Istanbul has always been an important location. Lying between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul, known then as Constantinople, became the capital of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, in 330 AD. And throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe’s largest and wealthiest city.
With its fiber investment in Turkey, Interoute becomes the only European operator able to provide high capacity connectivity direct from 26 European countries into Turkey’s dynamic business center.
“Turkey is known for its heritage and history and 2010 rightly sees Istanbul take its turn as the European Capital of Culture,” Interoute wholesale executive vice president Renzo Ravaglia said in a statement. “But equally impressive is Istanbul’s development into a key business and media hub for national and international business. As increasing numbers of European companies look to Turkey for new business opportunities the requirement for the type of high capacity, highly resilient data connectivity that Interoute specialises in, is growing.”
Uniquely positioned between Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Turkey can be a strategic global hub for multinational businesses. It attracted more than $11 billion in foreign direct investment in 2009 from multinational companies despite the global recession. Last year, more than half of companies operating in Turkey were from EU countries.
Designed to carry video, multimedia internet traffic and bandwidth intensive digital applications, Interoute’s network now covers 98 cities in 28 countries. The company has followed a strategy of extending its high capacity network East and South East into emerging business markets and continually seeks to meet the demand for fiber across Europe and beyond. Interoute’s pan-European network.
All traffic through the Istanbul PoP will be monitored by Interoute’s network operations center in Prague and businesses can benefit from advanced managed services including connectivity, VPN services, managed hosting, Unified Communications and VoIP solutions.
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