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DE-CIX provides premium interconnection services, and operates carrier and data-centre-neutral internet exchanges in Europe, the Middle East, North America and Asia. The company delivers state-of-the-art technology and services to meet the growing interconnection needs of its customers. Its interconnection services are accessible from more than 600 data centres in 100 countries – an ecosystem spanning seas, oceans and continents.

GlobalConnect is a leading supplier of fibre-based data communications and data centres in Northern Europe. Its 100,000 kilometres of fibre and almost 35,000 square metres of secure data centres in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and northern Germany form the platform for its customers’ digital journeys. In addition, customers have access to market-leading network solutions, IT security, IT outsourcing and unified communications to help them focus on their core business and growth.

NorthC Data Centers is a market leader in regional data centres, colocation and connectivity services, with 10 data centres in the Netherlands, three in Switzerland and two in Germany. NorthC offers customised connectivity and hybrid cloud solutions to its customers, which include business and financial service providers, the government and healthcare sectors, IT service providers, and many small businesses and large multinationals. Working closely with regional IT partners, NorthC offers its customers complete solutions to support their digital-transformation journeys.

Network automation will be essential to dynamically coordinate multi-cloud edge environments of the future when it comes to data centre interconnection. Sasa Nijemcevic, vice president and general manager for network automation software at Nokia, talks about the market’s evolution, opportunities and challenges in this area.

Rapid digitisation, 5G and developments at the edge mean a need for new forms of data centre and cloud interconnection platform to help facilitate this transformation. Rafael De Fermín, senior vice president for network infrastructure in Europe at Nokia, maps out how the industry can take things to the next level.

Highly scalable optical transport technologies are gaining importance to deal with increasingly complex needs for massive-scale data centre interconnection, including among webscale operators outside the traditional hyperscaler ecosystem. James Watt, head of the optical networks division at Nokia, talks of the latest optical innovations shaping the market.

What you can measure, you can manage, so Paris-headquartered European data-centre provider Data4 is using its expert knowledge to further its journey to protect the environment. Jérôme Totel, the group’s innovation and transformation director, tells Capacity how the company is doing this.

After going into service last summer, the EllaLink subsea cable presents huge and unique opportunities as a direct connection between Latin America and Europe. A year on, EllaLink CEO Philippe Dumont talks about its impact so far and why it plays a key role in supporting digitisation in the two continents and beyond.

Developments in the era of cloud and digitisation have changed the shape of the subsea wholesale sector and even blurred definitions between what wholesale and enterprise mean. Chris Bayly, CCO at Aqua Comms, reflects on these dynamics and their significance both historically and into the future.