“ BY EXPLOITING INTERNET ROUTES OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE AROUND MARSEILLE YOU CAN REDUCE THIS LATENCY ”
TELEHOUSE FRANCE
“ BY EXPLOITING INTERNET ROUTES OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE AROUND MARSEILLE YOU CAN REDUCE THIS LATENCY ”
SAMI SLIM CEO , TELEHOUSE FRANCE
Why the South of France ? So , why is Marseille so well placed as a data hub to spread out North , East , South and West ?
“ Marseille is one of the fastest-growing cities . Our mission is to build a new platform that will open up access between countries in Africa and the Middle East , and between Asia and Europe .
“ We see Marseille as being uniquely positioned in Europe to attract traffic between Europe and a huge area of the rest of the world .”
Telehouse France deemed Marseille as the best-placed location to complement the data traffic already running through cities such as Frankfurt , London , Paris and Amsterdam .
Sami explains it in very simple and logical terms : “ The position of Marseille offers it direct access to some key undersea systems coming not only from Asia and Africa , but also from Latin America ,” he says , referring to these underwater ‘ pipes ’ as “ submarine systems ”.
" The most important thing is that this location is opening up channels between Europe and the rest of the world , offering the region new routes that didn ' t previously exist ," he says ." And , of course , the benefits of these new channels of communications are two-way .”
“ These routes are now the backbone of the internet for billions of people because of Marseille . 4.5 billion people connected with faster and more reliable internet through Marseille via fifteen submarine cables .”
Sami is very keen to make sure we all understand that , when we speak of the cloud and data storage , what we really mean
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