The Dutch company Relined Fiber Network has announced that it has expanded its dark-fibre network to Germany. Using a metro fibre-optic network in Frankfurt, Relined said it will provide data centre connections as in Amsterdam, connecting two important Internet hubs in Europe to Relined's network.
Relined said that along with Amsterdam, Frankfurt is one of the largest Internet hubs in the world. With the metro network in these two large Internet hubs, Relined believes it can grow further. Relined can also answer the demand for international dark-fibre connections (unlit fibre-optic cable) "“ such as from Amsterdam to Frankfurt. The metro network in Frankfurt focuses on the future: the design took the other existing data centres into immediate account. These can be linked easily to the network in Frankfurt.
Relined GmbH was officially established in 2017 with the goal of expanding the network further over the country's borders. Now, the rental of dark-fibre connections can start outside the Netherlands. More than 20 data centres are linked to the metro network in Frankfurt, including the data centres of Colt, Digital Realty, Equinix, e-Shelter and Interxion. Connections can now be provided among on-net data centres in Frankfurt for fixed rates. Relined added that starting in September 2018, the network will be optimised so that connections can be delivered within 1-3 weeks.
"We are growing rapidly. As an independent lessor of dark fibre, Relined focuses not only on the Netherlands, but also on all of Western Europe. With our metro network in Frankfurt, we have taken another step toward achieving this goal," says Jan Willem Tom, Managing Director of Relined.
At the end of 2017, Relined said that the expansion of its network in the Netherlands by more than 7000 km was accomplished via a collaboration with British Telecom (BT.) With this, Relined said it achieved a nationwide and high-density expansion of its network in the Netherlands. The company's expansion plans are significant and include a city ring in Frankfurt and the commissioning of the COBRA data cable (sea cable) between Eemshaven and Denmark projected for the end of 2018. With the network extensions to Denmark and Germany, Relined follows its shareholder TenneT, which is present in the Netherlands and Germany with its electricity network and is working on a connection toward Denmark (COBRA data cable).
