8x8 Expands International Presence With Launch of Cloud Communications Service Platform at New UK Data Center
October 17 2013 - 7:15AM
Business Wire
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a leading provider of cloud
communications and collaboration solutions, today announced it has
signed an agreement with Interxion, (NYSE:INXN), Europe’s leading
provider of cloud and carrier-neutral colocation data center
services, for interconnection and localization services at
Interxion's London data center, home to customers such as NASDAQ
and Thomson Reuters.
Interxion operates 34 data centers in 13 cities across 11
countries and houses more than 450 carriers and Internet service
providers and 19 European Internet exchanges. With its expansion to
the UK, 8x8’s European Union customers will gain the strategic
advantage of having their communications needs served through the
shortest/best media path based upon their geographic location,
ensuring optimal reliability and call quality. In conjunction with
the launch of the UK platform, 8x8 is implementing new Geo Routing
technology across its network that dynamically routes calls to the
nearest data center using location information such as the public
IP address of the users.
"The Interxion data center not only enhances 8x8's geographic
diversity with increased availability and redundancy, it also
provides a local presence for our multinational customers that
require a footprint in Europe," said 8x8 Vice President of Network
Operations Mehdi Salour. "As our mid-market customer base continues
to grow and businesses continue to adopt cloud based services,
Interxion's cost-efficient connectivity, outstanding uptime
performance and flexibility to quickly scale will be of critical
importance to 8x8."
8x8 is seeing growing interest from mid-market customers who are
not only increasing their deployment of cloud communications and
collaboration solutions in larger, distributed environments within
the United States, but are also requiring a local presence
internationally, a catalyst for the Company’s strategic Global
Reach initiative.
“We are very pleased that 8x8 has chosen Interxion as its
European data center partner,” said Douglas Loewe, UK Managing
Director, Interxion. “Interxion continues to enable cloud service
providers such as 8x8 to deliver enterprise grade solutions to
European markets by providing reliable, scalable and well-connected
data center services. This expansion by 8x8 reinforces our
position as a best-in-class supplier of data center services to the
rapidly expanding Enterprise Cloud service provider segment.”
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) offers a complete portfolio of cloud
communications and collaboration solutions that include hosted PBX
telephony, unified communications, call center software, video
conferencing and virtual desktop services. The company has been
delivering business services since 2004 and has garnered a
reputation for technical excellence and outstanding reliability. In
2012, 8x8 was named a market "leader" in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in North America
and was recognized as the No. 1 Provider of Hosted IP Telephony by
Frost & Sullivan and Synergy Research Group. For additional
information, visit www.8x8.com, or connect with 8x8 on
Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Interxion:
Interxion (NYSE:INXN) is a leading provider of cloud and
carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving
a wide range of customers through 34 data centres in 11 European
countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data
centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their
mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by over
450 fixed and mobile carriers and ISPs and 19 European Internet
exchanges, Interxion has created cloud, content, finance
and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of
interest. For more information, please
visit www.interxion.com.
8x8, Inc.Joan Citelli,
408-654-0970joan.citelli@8x8.comorInterxionRichard Dorgan, +44
(0)20 7375 7000richardd@interxion.com
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