Derio, 11 May 2021. The Euskaltel Group, the leading telecommunications operator in northern Spain, connects its fibre network to the Telxius Derio Communications Hub, a carrier neutral telecommunications infrastructure with remarkable interconnection capacity located near Bilbao and just a few kilometers away from Marea’s submarine cable landing station. This agreement will allow the Euskaltel Group and its commercial brands, Euskaltel, R, Telecable and Virgin telco, to leverage interconnection-rich and transmission capabilities offered by the Derio Communications Hub, thus improving the connectivity options of its network.
The Derio Communications Hub is a carrier neutral facility with open architecture that guarantees that all carriers, hyperscalers and cloud and/or content providers benefit from its cutting-edge services and its interconnection-rich capacity. Derio features Tier III specifications and combines the functionalities of a cable landing station with those of an international PoP. Furthermore, the facility was designed using eco-friendly standards, runs on 100 percent renewable energywith free cooling and offers up to 4 MW of power capacity.