Six Degrees has acquired datacentre interconnection business DataHop.
The association has pronounced that a understanding will now concede it to to bring together many of London’s datacentres on-net. This includes Telecity, Telehouse, Interxion, Level 3 and Iomart facilities.
It is means to do this by Datahop’s network, that consists of a high-speed twine ring that connects 21 points of participation (PoPs) in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris.
Datahop’s network will also move in 16 new PoPs onto a Six Degrees core network as good as fluctuating a Group’s footprint into 4 Western European countries.
Following a acquisition, Six Degrees Group will wish to boost a revenues, that now mount during run-rate revenues of £44 million with an EBITDA of over £11 million, by investing in a multi-million bruise ascent before rising a subsequent era VPLS-enabled datacentre interconnect fabric.
This investment will capacitate multi-gigabit pier capability for placement of a converged voice, information and hosting portfolio.
Daniel Lowe, handling executive of Six Degrees Group’s managed information division, said: “This proclamation outlines a poignant step-change in a scale, strech and capability of a Six Degrees Group network.
“Datahop’s technologies will concede us to broach aloft bandwidth, and a broader operation of services to a customers. Our ability to couple people, places and clouds has been increased significantly with a stretchable use origination capability we now offer to a market,” Lowe said.
Article source: http://www.channelbiz.co.uk/2012/05/22/six-degrees-group-acquires-datahop/