IX Reach

As a leading global provider of wholesale network solutions, IX Reach, a BSO company, has a strong and diverse customer base that spans various global regions. The company saw a new opportunity to increase its customer base, recognising a growing interest in cloud adoption from the market of enterprise-level businesses, creating an appetite for cloud connectivity services.

To benefit from the cloud opportunity, IX Reach, a BSO company, wanted to expand its global connected network to become vast enough to appeal to prospective enterprise customers. The company was looking to link with an established data centre provider that boasted the best possible breadth of connectivity across the UK and Europe to bolster its own connectivity in this region. The right data centre collaborator would need to have strong carrier density and network reach. IX Reach, a BSO company, wanted to build on an existing ecosystem and deal with suppliers under one roof with guaranteed predictability and reliability.

It was also important for IX Reach, a BSO company, that the collaborating organisation would be easy to do business with. In return the relationship would provide the chosen data centre provider with its own global increase in connectivity through the established IX Reach, a BSO company, network, enhancing its own services and creating new connectivity opportunities.

As part of the development of its cloud service offering, IX Reach, a BSO company, would also need to develop its own SDN portal to make it quick and easy for customers to connect directly to the cloud.
The prospective data centre provider needed to have the expertise to assist in the development of the portal.

IX Reach, a BSO company, has had a strong working relationship with Telehouse for over a decade and when it came to identifying a data centre provider to work with on its cloud connectivity proposition for enterprises, it quickly became clear that both companies shared the same goal.

Initially IX Reach, a BSO company, had been purchasing rack space in Telehouse’s London and Paris data centres for colocation and cross connectivity since the relationship began. Establishing an even closer relationship enabled both companies to benefit from each other’s carrier density and network reach, forming the basis for strong enterprise-focused cloud connectivity services from both organisations.

The Telehouse Docklands campus in London attracts custom from a variety of businesses with an appetite to connect to its ecosystem of carriers and leading cloud service providers. Additionally, Telehouse’s other European locations including Paris and Frankfurt are ideally located for connecting enterprise-level businesses to major cloud service providers in those regions.

“Telehouse was the largest campus and had the broadest set of customers,” said IX Reach, a BSO company Chief Product Officer, Stephen Wilcox. “Additionally, my relationship with the Telehouse team which was best part of a decade old by then meant they were willing to make an attractive proposition which gave us a path to grow, negotiated upfront so we could put that into our business model and not fear any unexpected changes.”

Currently, IX Reach a BSO company, has points of presence in various Telehouse London data centres, including in Telehouse West via Amito, as well as in its Paris data centres.