Iceland's Mila Chooses Ekinops 100G Solution to Interconnect Reykjavik Data Centers
23 April 2015 - 4:01PM
Business Wire
Energy-Efficient Ekinops 360 Aligns with
Mila's Environmental Dedication
Mila, one of the leading telecommunications service providers in
Iceland, has chosen Ekinops to provide high-capacity connectivity
to data centers in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. Ekinops announced
its contract and partnership with Mila today to provide 100 Gbps
equipment for the interconnection of various data centers.
Mila, whose core activities involve building and operating the
most modern telecommunications network in Iceland, operates more
than 500 technical facilities all over Iceland. Iceland offers its
low-cost, clean-energy data center services to companies all over
the world.
Iceland's climate is ideal for data centers due to the naturally
cool environment. In addition, because Iceland relies entirely on
geothermal and hydro sources, it has the most "green" energy in the
world. The cost and environmental considerations are key to
companies using the services of data centers.
For Mila, rapid growth in traffic among Icelandic data centers
drove it to look for a higher-capacity solution, one that would
provide connectivity to backbone networks and to submarine
connections.
"Ekinops provided a very cost-effective solution and excellent
support to meet our needs," said Snorri Olgeirsson, Chief Network
Designer at Mila. "The ability to quickly augment capacity is
essential to our continued growth as data centers’ traffic
increases rapidly."
Dadi Sigurdarson, Director of the Transport Network at Mila,
commented: “We are particularly impressed by the optical
performance of the Ekinops 100G product. It has the right
capabilities to be put in use over longer distances here in Iceland
in the future. Also, it is in line with Mila's dedication to clean
energy and the compact equipment is highly power-efficient in
addition to being reliable and robust.”
About Mila
Mila has for over 100 years built up, maintained and operated a
state-of-the-art telecommunications network in Iceland. Data
centers, telecommunications and IT companies utilize this network
through various solutions. Mila’s specialties include operation of
a telecommunication and data network, co-location and
consultancy.
About Ekinops
Ekinops is a leading supplier of next generation optical
transport equipment for telecommunications service providers. The
Ekinops 360 addresses metro, regional, and long-haul applications
with a single, highly-integrated platform. Ekinops is a
market-leading innovator in 100G transport with a coherent line of
products that truly optimizes optical networks and comes in 1RU,
2RU or 7RU chassis. The Ekinops 360 relies on the
highly-programmable Ekinops T-Chip® (Transport-on-a-Chip)
architecture that enables fast, flexible and cost-effective
delivery of new services for high-speed, high-capacity transport.
Using the Ekinops 360 carrier-grade system, operators can simply
increase capacity of their networks – CWDM, DWDM, Ethernet, ESCON,
Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, and uncompressed video (HD-SDI, SD-SDI,
ASI). Ekinops is headquartered in Lannion, France, and Ekinops
Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary, is incorporated in the USA.
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