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.
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