Interxion expands first pan-european managed gigabit connectivity services with Extreme partnership
AMSTERDAM, 03 April 2000 - Interxion, a leading European neutral Internet Exchange Center™ company, today announced the further development of its value-added service portfolio with the immediate availability of first pan-European Gigabit managed connectivity service based on Extreme Networks Gigabit Ethernet LAN technology.
Bart van den Dries, CEO of Interxion, said: The growing communities of customers in our Internet Exchange Centers™ want to deliver the highest quality service to their customers and this means access to speed and bandwidth. Our strategic relationship with Extreme Networks, now provides us the ability to offer Internet Service providers (ISPs), Application Service Providers (ASPs), e-commerce providers, content providers as well as telecommunications companies a unparalleled service which delivers more information faster.
Following a successful pilot Interxion is immediately rolling out its managed Gigabit Ethernet connectivity services to its existing Internet Exchange Centers™ in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris. Each Internet Exchange Center™ will receive an Extreme Networks BlackDiamond™ Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch that allows organisations with equipment located in Interxion Internet Exchange Centers™ to set-up and manage virtual local area networks (VLANs) for groups of customers as well as inter-customer peering connections.
We are proud to be working in partnership with Interxion as they offer a unique service to the Internet industry with their neutral Internet Exchange Centers™. Our mutual commitment and investment in this relationship is an industries first and we are looking forward to developing this unique relationship in more detail in the future. said Kees van Veenendaal, Managing Director EMEA of Extreme Networks.
Extreme Networks switches combine Gigabit Ethernet and IP with non-blocking wire-speed switching and quality of service to deliver more information faster enabling service provider to accommodate future network and traffic growth.
Interxion's state-of-the-art neutral Internet Exchange Centers™ provide value-added and managed services designed for the specific needs of advance networks including connectivity between ISP's and carriers for data and voice, hubbing and switch partitioning, efficiently managing all costs for organisations building out network infrastructure.
Additionally, fuelled by recent 100 million Euro funding, Interxion is rapidly expanding the number of Internet exchange centres it owns and operates, constructing a further seven centres in the major Europe metropolitan areas Brussels, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm and Vienna which will also offer managed Gigabit Ethernet connectivity service. All Interxion neutral Internet Exchange Centers™ are connected to their major national and international carrier networks as well as European Internet Exchanges such as LINX and GE-DEX.