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Interoute builds on cloud services with Quantix acquisition

Interoute has high hopes for cloud services

European backbone network operator Interoute has strengthened its offering in the cloud services space with the acquisition of UK-based Quantix. The purchase adds managed application services to Interoute’s unified computing and managed hosting portfolio, allowing the firm to manage international customers’ database applications, including Oracle and SQL, as a cloud based service.

World IPv6 day a success for those that can

IPv6 will provide virtually unlimited IP addresses for the future

Some of the biggest names on the internet offered their content over IPv6 on Wednesday, marking a global ‘test flight’ for the future architecture of the internet. The day’s success will be measured by the number of internet users that don’t see any difference in how they go about their business – a number that is not expected to be very high, given that the leading participants: Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Akamai to name a few, are dual stacking their websites.

Seacom, Interoute improve African net experience

Seacom and Interoute will also offer services over a shared network

Submarine cable operator Seacom, which connects Africa to Europe and Asia, has partnered with European network operator Interoute to improve the quality of internet access on the African continent by caching content closer to its consumers.

Interoute pushes video calling into the cloud

Interoute will offer video calling as SaaS

European backbone network operator Interoute has acquired its own video conferencing operation in the form of Scandinavia’s Visual Conference Group (VCG). The bolt on adds fully managed video conferencing and telepresence services to Interoute’s portfolio.

Telefonica teams with Interoute to expand wholesale ops

The network will offer 10Gbps over DWDM

Spanish carrier Telefónica’s International Wholesale Services (TIWS) division, the bit responsible for delivering wholesale connectivity to service providers worldwide, has teamed up with European fibre network operator Interoute, to expand the reach of both parties.

Clouds offer silver lining for all

Cloud computing offers a silver lining for all in the ecosystem

IBM expanded further into the telecoms space on Thursday with the unveiling of a cloud services platform aimed at carriers and service providers. The offering encompasses hardware, software and services which would allow telcos to offer cloud computing to their own customers.

Wyless signs Interoute for M2M backbone

Machine to Machine (M2M) managed services provider Wyless Group has signed a technical partnership agreement with Interoute, operator of a European fibre network to host three Wyless NOCs.

Microsoft, Interoute plan VoIP peering system

Microsoft and pan-European carrier, Interoute, plan to launch a service by June that will enable businesses using the software giant’s Live Communications Server (LCS) to interconnect their VoIP calls within “three mouse-clicks”. LCS, soon to be renamed Office Communications Server 2007, presents a competitive challenge to conventional business-VoIP systems by knitting telephony into Microsoft’s desktop [...]