- Partnership enables Europe’s leading Edge platform to utilise Megaport’s Software Defined Network
- AtlasEdge customers to benefit from direct connectivity to leading public cloud providers
- London and Manchester will be first AtlasEdge sites to be Megaport-enabled
AtlasEdge, a leading pan-European Edge data centre provider, and Megaport, a leading global Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, have announced a strategic partnership which will see AtlasEdge utilise Megaport’s on-demand Software-Defined Network (SDN) across its expanding portfolio.
The partnership will commence with two of AtlasEdge’s key UK locations becoming Megaportenabled. The sites, which are in London and Manchester, will offer AtlasEdge customers:
- Choice: Dedicated private access to an industry-leading 243 cloud on-ramps and more than 700 on-net locations
- Security and Performance: Reliable, direct, private connections that bypass the public internet
- Marketplace: A global ecosystem of more than 350 service providers, including, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Nutanix, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, Rackspace and SAP, as well as leading IP Transit, VIOP allowing customers to easily consume services from within the ecosystem.
- Ease-of-Use: Delivered from the self-service easy-to-use Portal, Megaport services can be enabled and adjusted as required in real time.
- Optionality: Enable hybrid cloud, multicloud, and cloud-to-cloud architectures via point-andclick provisioning with the intelligent Megaport Cloud Router
- Performance: Localise applications and terminate traffic closer to the edge where performance matters
- Scalability: Elastic connectivity supports business needs and aligns to cloud consumption models
The Megaport SDN is then intended to be rolled out to more AtlasEdge locations across Europe, providing customers with the ability to take a hybrid approach to data storage and computer functionality. The collaboration is one of many growing partnerships entered into by AtlasEdge and will play a key role in supporting the company’s ongoing mission to deliver seamless, localised and ultra-low latency digital infrastructure across the continent.
This strategic partnership provides our customers with enhanced choice, security, performance and optionality. We look forward to working closely with the Megaport team as we continue to build Europe’s leading, next generation edge platform.”
Giuliano Di Vitantonio, CEO, AtlasEdge
We are pleased to be partnering with AtlasEdge as part of our growing ecosystem of data centre partners. Providing Megaport’s leading NaaS platform on AtlasEdge’s sites simplifies cloud connectivity for customers, enabling them to quickly choose and connect to the services they need.”
Vincent English, Chief Executive Officer at Megaport
ABOUT MEGAPORT
Megaport is a leading provider of Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions. The company’s global Software Defined Network (SDN) helps businesses rapidly connect their network to services via an easy-to-use portal or our open API. Megaport offers agile networking capabilities that reduce operating costs and increase speed to market compared to traditional networking solutions. Megaport partners with the world’s top cloud service providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as the largest data centre operators, systems integrators and managed service providers in the world. Megaport is an ISO/IEC 27001-certified company.
For more information, please visit www.megaport.com
About AtlasEdge
AtlasEdge is a leading European Edge data centre platform with operations across 12 countries. Our distributed data centre portfolio allows customers to plan and shape their technology and network infrastructure to meet the growing requirements for lower latency, higher performance and localized solutions. Established in 2021, AtlasEdge is backed by a joint investment from Liberty Global, a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content, and technology ventures, and DigitalBridge, a leading global investment firm dedicated to digital infrastructure. Our portfolio includes data centres in growing markets across Europe, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Leeds, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Paris, Vienna, and Zurich. In February 2023, AtlasEdge successfully acquired Datacenter One, in Germany, which includes state-of-the-art data centres in Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, and Leverkusen.