Aire Networks establishes a POP at the Barcelona Cable Landing Station and accesses global companies and carriers that reach Europe by submarine cable. Aire Networks, a leading technology solutions company, announces the opening of a new point of presence (PoP) at the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS), Barcelona’s main neutral digital port, located in […]
EXA infrastructure anchors network investment in Barcelona and connects to Barcelona Cable Landing Station leading the industry interconnectivity and regional economic growth Barcelona, 30 March 2023 – EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America, today announced it has committed €39 million of network investments to date in supercharging its […]
EdgeConneX, an international reference organization with more than 50 data centers in more than 30 markets in Europe and America, will connect its data center located in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona) to the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS), an infrastructure that is becoming a neuralgic point of connection between Barcelona and the world. […]
AFR-IX Telecom welcomes Colt Technology Services (Colt), who will shortly start operating from Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS), making it the station’s first land-based client. As a result, Colt, a leader in terrestrial fibre optic routes and a world leader in high bandwidth network and voice services for businesses and wholesale clients, consolidates its […]
Frankfurt am Main/Barcelona, 7 November 2022. On the back of the first anniversary of DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator, entering Catalonia with DE-CIX Barcelona, the company today announces a strategic partnership with AFR-IX telecom. Headquartered in Barcelona, AFR-IX telecom is the infrastructure and telecom operator that operates the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS). Barcelona CLS, the […]
Meta announced on 24th October the arrival of the 2Africa submarine cable in Barcelona, in a partnership with AFR-IX telecom, the landing partner and the owner of the Barcelona Cable Landing Station (Barcelona CLS). Next morning, the first international submarine cable landed at the Sant Adrià de Besòs beach, where the beach manholes of Barcelona Cable […]
Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS) it is already a reality. This key infrastructure is ready to host up to 8 submarine fiber optic cables and will soon become a benchmark digital port in the Mediterranean. The arrival of the first two cables will take place before the end of the year. The infrastructure has involved […]
En los últimos meses, son un constante las informaciones sobre el peso de los data centers como valor estratégico en las economías. Esta presencia mediática no es más que el reflejo de una realidad: la necesidad imparable de estas infraestructuras por el incremento exponencial del tráfico de datos a la nube, la implantación del 5G, […]
Interxion, a Digital Realty company and one of the data center giants in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa), recently announced the acquisition of a space in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona) to build a new connectivity hub. This is its first infrastructure in Catalonia and will be added to the three data […]
Source: ASN Submarine cable technology has evolved a lot since the first cables were put into operation in the 19th century for telegraph communications. Improvements have been made in aspects such as the form of transmission (pairs, coaxial, fibre optic), cable protection and insulation, signal transmission (analogue and digital from copper to fibre optic) and […]