Sprint connects to London

Sprint has connected its global network into the LDeX1 Data Centre in London, offering business customers the ability to enhance carrier diversity and provide low-latency connectivity to the United States.

Friday, 8th November 2013 Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

The LDeX1 Data Centre is located in North London and the addition of this Tier 1 carrier to the facility will ensure that LDeX1’s rapidly growing client base will have direct access to a wide choice of Sprint services including its global MPLS network, Managed Network Solution, international SIP trunking and hosted services portfolio – plus an array of Sprint connected telecoms and content distribution networks, global internet exchange points and cloud providers.

The expansion also is expected to help Sprint meet the added connectivity demands in Europe driven by the continued uptake of cloud services by enterprise clients.

Mark Harris, Regional Director - Sales and Marketing for EMEA, Sprint, said, “Sprint continues to enhance its network capabilities within Europe. Through expanding its facilities with LDeX1 in London, we remain focused on ensuring datacentre customers have direct access to Sprint’s congestion free and low jitter global network for the delivery of mission critical applications.”

Rob Garbutt, CEO at LDeX said: “We are delighted to announce that Sprint is making LDeX1 it’s latest point of presence. LDeX1 is rapidly becoming the Data Centre of choice for high-bandwidth users and customers looking for the best global routes to create the lowest possible latency networks. We are seeing lots of growth in the digital media sector, and welcoming Sprint into the growing digital eco system is a real boost for our current client base. Now we have Sprint within LDeX1 our clients can connect directly to the globe via one of the largest and most reputable providers in the world.”