Interxion
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Interxion is a European
provider of carrier-neutral colocation
data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands
, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
on January 28, 2011. Interxion is headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk
, the Netherlands, and delivers its services through 28 data centres in 11 countries located in major metropolitan areas, including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid, the main data centre markets in Europe.
The company’s core offering is carrier-neutral colocation, which includes provision of space, power and a secure environment in which to house customers’ computing, network, storage and IT infrastructure. Interxion’s carrier-neutral colocation services enable customers to reduce operational and capital expenses while improving application performance and flexibility. Interxion also supplements its core colocation offering with a number of additional services, including systems monitoring, systems management, engineering support services, data back-up and storage.
Within its data centres, Interxion enables approximately 1,100 customers to house their equipment and connect to a broad range of telecommunications carriers, ISPs and other customers. The data centres act as content and connectivity hubs that facilitate the processing, storage, sharing and distribution of data, content, applications and media among carriers and customers.
Interxion’s customer base is in high-growth market segments, including financial services, cloud and managed services providers, digital media and carriers. Customers in these target markets enable expansion of existing communities of interest and build new, high-value communities of interest within the data center. Communities of interest are particularly important to customers in each of these market segments. For example, customers in the digital media segment benefit from the close proximity to content delivery network providers and Internet exchanges in order to rapidly deliver content to consumers. Interxion expects the high-value and reduced-cost benefits of communities of interest to continue to attract new customers.
Interxion’s data centres enable its customers to connect to more than 350 carriers and ISPs and 19 European Internet exchanges, allowing them to lower telecommunications costs and reduce latency times.
’s and over 350 carriers. Existing Interxion customers can interconnect data centers to any of these parties via a simple cross connect using the Ethernet platform within Interxion data centres.
, the British Standards Institution ( BSI
) standard for Business Continuity Management
. This has been integrated with Interxion’s existing Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification ISO 27001 standard for all of its European country operations. In addition, the company’s European Customer Service Centre (ECSC) team has now been trained in ITIL v3, the latest Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard.
BS 25999 is the world's first Business Continuity Management (BCM) standard, developed to minimise the risks of disruptions, which can impact a business. The standard is designed to keep businesses operational during challenging times by protecting staff, preserving reputations and providing the ability to keep trading.
Interxion’s development of a BCM system involved integrating with the already established Information Security Management System, ISO 27001, an internationally recognised certification designed to assess levels of risk across an entire company’s data centre network.
Interxion was nominated in the Green I.T. Awards 2011 as a finalist for “IT Operator of the Year”.
and 24x7 controlled access. All building areas are secured by an alarm system, and an external security firm patrols the area, both inside and outside. Interxion utilizes ISO 27001-certified information security management systems.
), regional (Tier 2 network
) and national ( Tier 3 network
) networks with direct access to the backbone infrastructure
and PoP
’s for over 350 carriers across it’s European footprint. These carriers are present at Interxion’s data centres both to interconnect to other carriers but also to take advantage of the customer communities within the data centres.
. Interxion houses 19 such Internet exchanges in Europe. Interxion is an active supporter of the public Internet Exchanges and was an active participant in the creation of Euro-IX.
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
provider of carrier-neutral colocation
Colocation
Colocation is the act of placing multiple entities within a single location.Colocation is often used in the data sourcing industry to mean off-site data storage, usually in a data center. This is very important for businesses since the loss of data can be crucial for companies of any size...
data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
on January 28, 2011. Interxion is headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk
Schiphol-Rijk
Schiphol-Rijk is an industrial estate in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and lies in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer...
, the Netherlands, and delivers its services through 28 data centres in 11 countries located in major metropolitan areas, including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid, the main data centre markets in Europe.
The company’s core offering is carrier-neutral colocation, which includes provision of space, power and a secure environment in which to house customers’ computing, network, storage and IT infrastructure. Interxion’s carrier-neutral colocation services enable customers to reduce operational and capital expenses while improving application performance and flexibility. Interxion also supplements its core colocation offering with a number of additional services, including systems monitoring, systems management, engineering support services, data back-up and storage.
Within its data centres, Interxion enables approximately 1,100 customers to house their equipment and connect to a broad range of telecommunications carriers, ISPs and other customers. The data centres act as content and connectivity hubs that facilitate the processing, storage, sharing and distribution of data, content, applications and media among carriers and customers.
Interxion’s customer base is in high-growth market segments, including financial services, cloud and managed services providers, digital media and carriers. Customers in these target markets enable expansion of existing communities of interest and build new, high-value communities of interest within the data center. Communities of interest are particularly important to customers in each of these market segments. For example, customers in the digital media segment benefit from the close proximity to content delivery network providers and Internet exchanges in order to rapidly deliver content to consumers. Interxion expects the high-value and reduced-cost benefits of communities of interest to continue to attract new customers.
Interxion’s data centres enable its customers to connect to more than 350 carriers and ISPs and 19 European Internet exchanges, allowing them to lower telecommunications costs and reduce latency times.
Communities of Interest
Interxion focuses its efforts on attracting customers in well-defined sectors of industry:Digital Media and Distribution
Interxion has created Content Hubs across its European data centre footprint. The hubs allow organisations to aggregate, exchange, store, manage and distribute content in addition to interconnecting with a large digital media community, helping to optimise distribution and minimise costs.Financial Services
Interxion has created Financial Hubs across key European financial markets, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Stockholm. The Hubs consist of highly interactive and extensive communities of capital markets participants, including a range of algorithmic and high-frequency traders, brokers, hedge funds, exchanges, MTF’s, market data providers and clearing houses. The Financial Hubs are accessible via a wide range of carriers and high bandwidth fibre connectivity providers.Cloud Computing
Interxion has created 13 Cloud Hubs across its European footprint, creating an optimum environment for cost-effective development, launch and management of successful cloud-based services for enterprises, systems integrators and cloud service providers. The hubs also enable fast, easy interconnection with one of Europe's largest and fastest-growing community of cloud operators.Carriers and Network Providers
Interxion works with many carriers, network providers and Internet Service Providers as well as 19 Internet Exchanges, neutral Ethernet exchanges, four of the world’s largest CDNContent Delivery Network
A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
’s and over 350 carriers. Existing Interxion customers can interconnect data centers to any of these parties via a simple cross connect using the Ethernet platform within Interxion data centres.
History
European Telecom Exchange BV was incorporated on April 6, 1998, which (after being renamed Interxion Holding B.V. on June 12, 1998) was converted into Interxion Holding N.V. on January 11, 2000. Interxion completed it's IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 28, 2011. Interxion was founded by Bart van den Dries.Industry Standards and Accreditations
Interxion is certified with BS 25999BS 25999
BS 25999 is BSI's standard in the field of Business Continuity Management . This standard replaces PAS 56, a Publicly Available Specification, published in 2003 on the same subject.-Structure:...
, the British Standards Institution ( BSI
BSI Group
BSI Group, also known in its home market as the British Standards Institution , is a multinational business services provider whose principal activity is the production of standards and the supply of standards-related services.- History :...
) standard for Business Continuity Management
Business continuity planning
Business continuity planning “identifies [an] organization's exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization, whilst maintaining competitive advantage and value system integrity”. It is also called...
. This has been integrated with Interxion’s existing Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification ISO 27001 standard for all of its European country operations. In addition, the company’s European Customer Service Centre (ECSC) team has now been trained in ITIL v3, the latest Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard.
BS 25999 is the world's first Business Continuity Management (BCM) standard, developed to minimise the risks of disruptions, which can impact a business. The standard is designed to keep businesses operational during challenging times by protecting staff, preserving reputations and providing the ability to keep trading.
Interxion’s development of a BCM system involved integrating with the already established Information Security Management System, ISO 27001, an internationally recognised certification designed to assess levels of risk across an entire company’s data centre network.
Awards
In 2010 Interxion’s Technology and Engineering Group was recognized for its “Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector” at the sixth annual Data Centre Europe awards ceremony held at Espaces Antipolis in Nice, France.Interxion was nominated in the Green I.T. Awards 2011 as a finalist for “IT Operator of the Year”.
Memberships
Interxion is a member of the following organizations:- RIPERIPERéseaux IP Européens is a forum open to all parties with an interest in the technical development of the Internet. The RIPE community’s objective is to ensure that the administrative and technical coordination necessary to maintain and develop the Internet continues...
- Euro-IX
- Irish Internet Association
- The Green GridThe Green GridThe Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems...
– Contributor Member - The Green GridThe Green GridThe Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems...
– Advisory Council - The Uptime Institute
Security
Interxion data centre buildings are typically designed with five layers of physical security: the perimeter fence, the security gate and entrance, mantraps into the data centre, access systems into the rooms and secure, locked cabinets. Clients can introduce additional levels, such as lockable cages or cubes (containment aisles), as required. No one enters or leaves the data centre without proof of identity, such as national ID, passport or driving license; and all visitors are checked against customer-defined access lists. There are multiple physical security layers, including CCTV, man trapsAccess control
Access control refers to exerting control over who can interact with a resource. Often but not always, this involves an authority, who does the controlling. The resource can be a given building, group of buildings, or computer-based information system...
and 24x7 controlled access. All building areas are secured by an alarm system, and an external security firm patrols the area, both inside and outside. Interxion utilizes ISO 27001-certified information security management systems.
Power
Interxion provides managed power with resilience built in all the way to the cabinet and server if required and a minimum N+1 configuration on power infrastructure with facilities such as high-speed refueling. The continuously improving design specification supports a modular build, including critical infrastructure, and is flexible enough to adapt to specific customer requirements without loss of overall efficiency. Extra equipment can be added to the infrastructure to increase capacity without causing outages.Controlled Environment
For optimum performance, all equipment is maintained and continuously monitored in a climate-controlled environment. The average temperature inside the cold aisle is controlled between 18 and 25°C and a humidity level of 50% ± 10%. Multiple air conditioning units provide redundant capacity. Early warning systems installed as standard detect hot spots before they become a problem.Energy Efficiency
After joining the Green Grid association in 2008 and becoming a Contributor Member and part of the Advisory Council, Interxion has committed to continuously investigate efficiency opportunities such as free cooling as standard, ground water cooling, and waste heat re-use, but never at the expense of reliability and availability. Continuous monitoring and measuring provides information about the environments and enables identification of opportunities to improve efficiency. The flexible design allows Interxion to meet customer demands with a scalable infrastructure model.Connectivity
Interxion connects to more than 350 individual carriers and ISPs as well as 19 European Internet exchanges. This is part of the carrier-neutral data centre concept.Carriers
Interxion hosts global (Tier 1 networkTier 1 network
A tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol network that participates in the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection, also known as settlement-free peering.-Definition:...
), regional (Tier 2 network
Tier 2 network
A Tier 2 Network is an Internet service provider who engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but who still purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet....
) and national ( Tier 3 network
Tier 2 network
A Tier 2 Network is an Internet service provider who engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but who still purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet....
) networks with direct access to the backbone infrastructure
Internet backbone
The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet...
and PoP
Point of presence
A point of presence is an artificial demarcation point or interface point between communications entities. It may include a meet-me-room.In the US, this term became important during the court-ordered breakup of the Bell Telephone system...
’s for over 350 carriers across it’s European footprint. These carriers are present at Interxion’s data centres both to interconnect to other carriers but also to take advantage of the customer communities within the data centres.
Internet Exchanges
Internet exchanges are the major points on the Internet where networks interconnect. They serve as an exchange point for the traffic of the Internet via bi-lateral, settlement-free peering agreementsPeering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
. Interxion houses 19 such Internet exchanges in Europe. Interxion is an active supporter of the public Internet Exchanges and was an active participant in the creation of Euro-IX.
| Country | City | Internet Exchange |
|---|---|---|
| Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... |
VIXhttp://www.vix.at/vix_locations.html?&L=1 |
| Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union... |
BNIXhttp://www.bnix.net/platform, FreeBIX FreeBIX FreeBIX is a non-profit Internet Exchange Point created in 2003. FreeBIX has three Points of Presence, all located near Brussels:* LCL Diegem* AXS Datahouse 1* Interxion ZaventemFreeBIX offers two versions of its services:... http://www.freebix.be/network |
| Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
DIX Danish Internet Exchange Point Danish Internet Exchange Point is operated by UNI•C in Kongens Lyngby north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.Its purpose is to alleviate the exchange of data traffic between networks that constitute the Danish part of the global Internet structure... http://www.dix.dk/faq |
| France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
FreeIXhttp://www.freeix.net/about/pops.html, Panaphttp://www.panap.fr/archi.php, France-IXhttps://www.franceix.net/page.php?MP=editorial&ST=section&op=page&artid=46, PARIX, SFINX Service for French Internet Exchange The Service for French Internet Exchange is one of the biggest French IXPs , along with PARIX, PaNAP and FreeIX. It's PoP's are based in Interxion and Telehouse... http://www.renater.fr/spip.php?article712 |
| Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the... , Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010... |
ECIX European Commercial Internet Exchange European Commercial Internet Exchange is a brand name of PEERING Gmbh located in Berlin and Düsseldorf. PEERING GmbH is a commercial organisation operating the ECIX. There are three POP´s in Germany with more than 150 members and peak traffic higher than 85Gb/s , making it the second largest IXP... http://www.ecix.eu/index.shtml, DE-CIX DE-CIX Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Frankfurt .... http://www.de-cix.net/content/about/Data_Centers.html |
| Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
Dublin | INEX Internet Neutral Exchange Internet Neutral Exchange is an Internet exchange located in the Ireland, with points of presence in Dublin at TeleCity - Citywest, Data Electronics - Kilcarbery Park and Interxion - Park West.... https://www.inex.ie/about/memberlist |
| Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population... , Hilversum Hilversum is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages... |
AMS-IXhttps://www.ams-ix.net/interxion/, NL-ixhttp://www.nl-ix.net/network/datacenters/ |
| Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... |
Espanixhttp://mrtg.espanix.net/total-espanix/total-espanix-interxion |
| Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... |
NetNodhttp://www.netnod.se/about/background |
| Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
Zurich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... |
SwissIX Swiss Internet Exchange The Swiss Internet Exchange is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Switzerland, currently in the following cities: Basel, Bern, Glattbrugg, Zurich. SwissIX is a fast growing, non-profit, neutral and independent peering network... http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/participants/participation/types/service_provider/list_en.html |
| UK | London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... |
LINX Linx Linx AB was a railway company which operated inter-Scandinavian passenger trains between 2001 and 2004. Established as a joint venture between the Norwegian State Railways and the Swedish state-owned SJ, Linx operated the routes from Oslo, Norway, to Stockholm, Sweden, and from Oslo via... https://www.linx.net/about/partnerpages/interxion.html , LONAP LONAP London Network Access Point is a London-based Internet exchange point founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has almost 100 members, making it the 2nd largest IXP in the UK and around the 15th largest IXP in the World by membership... http://www.lonap.net/ |
See also
- Data centerData centerA data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
- Cloud computingCloud computingCloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
- Colocation centreColocation centreA colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...
- Internet exchange pointInternet Exchange PointAn Internet exchange point is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks . IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit...
- PeeringPeeringIn computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...