Digital Realty, which owns 127 data center properties worldwide, has signed a network partnering agreement with Epsilon to offer a dynamic bandwidth solution in London to cloud and content providers for seamless backbone connectivity. The new platform facilitates enhanced connectivity for cloud and content providers from Digital Realty’s London-area data centers with seamless interconnectivity to over 65 data centres globally.
Epsilon is a privately owned communications service provider specializes in operating high-density metro connectivity platforms. It operates an extensive global network exchange, powered by BTI’s intelligent networking software and systems, to enable the delivery of on-demand metro connectivity services. Epsilon has created an application-aware network to rapidly scale capacity to support 100G connectivity and facilitate on-demand switching of cloud-based application workloads between data centres.
The partnership initially involves the establishment of points of presence in two of Digital Realty’s data centers in the UK (Chessington and Woking). The connectivity platform will operate on a major dark fiber ring, commissioned by Digital Realty, and connecting to 22 key London-area Internet and metro gateway centres. Further expansion across Europe is contemplated.
“Our goal is to provide flexible solutions that accommodate the evolving needs of our customers’ businesses, now and in the future,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, EMEA, for Digital Realty. “Our London-area customers require on-demand and rapidly scalable automation of their bandwidth as part of their data centre solutions. We are pleased to offer this platform as we continue to build the Digital Realty Ecosystem across our portfolio in Europe and globally.”
“Epsilon’s global network exchange, powered by BTI’s Cloud Networking Solution, provides the platform that we believe will help us achieve our distributed cloud data centre vision,” said Robert Bath, Vice President, Engineering, at Digital Realty. “We expect the solution to attract a new class of global cloud and content provider customers to our data centres.”
“We see growing demand from data centre customers for our outsourced connectivity model and this agreement with Digital Realty reaffirms our commitment to supporting cloud and content connectivity development,” said Andreas Hipp, Chief Executive Officer at Epsilon. “As a global provider, we are driven by service excellence and agile operational objectives. Working with BTI helps us achieve our dual mission by simplifying network operations and increasing service velocity, while enabling the introduction of new cloud connectivity services.”
