UK network operator builds 1,935km of new fibre for AI traffic
Key Points
- EXA Infrastructure has launched two European fibre routes totalling 1,935km.
- The 335km Milan-Zurich cable completes a 1,050km corridor ending in Genoa.
- The 1,600km Paris-Vienna route extends EXA’s London-Balkans corridor.
- Both routes target growing demand from AI and cloud traffic.
London-registered EXA Infrastructure has launched two new European fibre routes covering a combined 1,935km.
The network operator said its new Milan-Zurich and Paris-Vienna routes will meet growing capacity demand from AI, cloud and content traffic.
The 335km Milan-Zurich cable completes EXA’s Frankfurt-Zurich-Milan-Genoa corridor, which runs for roughly 1,050km.
EXA said it is the first carrier-grade, low-loss cable built to the G.652.D fibre standard and run by a single operator across this Alpine corridor.
The route connects the Frankfurt and Milan data centre hubs with the subsea cable hub in Genoa.
EXA built the cable with hundreds of fibres and modular in-line amplifier sites, which allow the company to add capacity as demand grows.
The second route runs for around 1,600km between Paris and Vienna and forms part of a longer corridor connecting London with the Balkans and Turkey. That corridor also offers onward connections into the Middle East.
The Paris-Vienna route creates new Paris-Frankfurt and Vienna-Frankfurt corridors, carrying transatlantic traffic from Western Europe into Frankfurt.
Customers can buy dark fibre, spectrum and wavelength services on both of the new routes.
“AI and cloud traffic has outgrown the idea that diversity means a backup path,” said Steve Roberts, Head of Strategic Investments and Product Management at EXA Infrastructure.
“Customers want a choice of routes they can design around resilience, latency and capacity requirements,” Roberts said.
“With Milan-Zurich we have completed a corridor that gives Frankfurt, Milan and Genoa the high-capacity connectivity they need, and with Paris-Vienna we have strengthened the route from London to the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East.”
“Both are built to meet the demand our customers are planning for and extend our low-loss G.652.D footprint across Europe,” Roberts added.
