Interoute
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | London |
| management | Gareth Williams (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 1440 |
| sales | 460 million euros (2013) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.interoute.de |
Interoute is a telecommunications provider and owner of a pan-European voice and data network. Interoute deals with the management of business-critical infrastructures. This includes dedicated hosting solutions and network services. The company uses its own Next Generation Network for technology-independent site networking, for VoIP and cloud services. The latter are mainly available as Video as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service . Interoute is owned by the Sandoz Family Foundation .
The enterprise
Interoute operates across Europe and offers its business customers ICT solutions. The company operates 24 Metropolitan Area Networks ( MAN ) in major European cities and cooperates with local network operators. In Germany, Interoute has MANs in Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Munich and Stuttgart . Here the company works under the name Interoute Germany GmbH. In Austria and Switzerland , the company is represented by MANs in Vienna , Meyrin and Zurich . For customers from the banking sector, Interoute operates automated trading via its network . Recently positioning as a cloud provider with video conference services and a virtual data center.
history
1995
- Established as a telecommunications provider
2000-2002
- Restructuring to network and service operator
- Takeover of Virtue Media creates the basis for the provider's CDN
2005
- Dubai Holding is investing € 120 million in the company
- Acquisition of PSINet Europe and VIA Net.works
2007
- Acquisition of 51 degrees in London and PI.SE in Sweden
2008
- 6. Submarine cable landing station connects the island of Malta to the network
2009
- Connection of Tunisia , East and South Africa to Interoute's network via submarine cables
2010
- Connection of Turkey to Interoute's network
2011
- Takeover of KPN German fiber optic network
- Acquisition of the Swedish video conferencing provider VCG
2012
- Connection of Israel to Interoute's network
2013
- Introduction of a CloudStore offer. Second building block, in addition to the virtual data center and the network for the European cloud services platform
- The Süddeutsche Zeitung reveals that Interoute, under the code name “Streetcar”, helped the British government agency GCHQ to transmit data from its customers for the Tempora program.
2015
- GTT Communications Inc. (GTT) to acquire Interoute for US $ 2.3 billion
Infrastructure
- 67,000 km long fiber optic network in Europe with a presence in Dubai , North Africa and connections to the USA and the Middle East .
- 12 data centers in major European cities
- Network connects 100 cities in 29 countries
- German branches in Kleinmachnow near Berlin , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Frankfurt and Ismaning near Munich .
Customers
Customers include national and international companies such as Bayer , BMW , Deutsche Post , Nintendo , Rossmann , Sony Music and Vodafone . The German Bundeswehr is also one of the customers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Snowden reveals names of telecom companies that are spying. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 2, 2013.
- ↑ https://www.gtt.net/us-en/news/press-releases/gtt-completes-acquisition-of-interoute/
- ↑ https://netzpolitik.org/2014/it-netze-der-oefflichen-verwaltung-gchq-partner-interoute-betrieb-glasfaser-fuer-bundeswehr-in-deutschland/