Global Cloud Xchange Enhances Customer Resilience with Gulf Europe Transit (GET)

The Middle East telecom market is rapidly growing with increased traffic and capacity needs. The issue is there is limited infrastructure to support this rapidly growing market. The lack of options around system resilience, route diversity, and latency challenges can limit growth of content and services in the Middle East. For companies looking to expand in the region, fully redundant, reliable network options are essential to avoid costly disruptions and single points of failure.?

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a network service provider, is enabling continuous market? growth in the region with its Gulf Europe Transit (GET) route connecting the Middle East and Asia to Europe. The new integrated solution offers low latency on a unique route that hands off from GCX FALCON to protected networks in Iraq and Turkey and continues up to Equinix in Frankfurt. With GET, GCX connects FALCON, the only self-healing optical system that also has the most landing points in the Middle East, with protected networks Ciena Iraq and TurkTelekom. The fully redundant solution brings together fully licensed operators and can carry 10G and 100G connections to content hubs in Sofia, Bulgaria, Turkey and the major European hubs.

(GCX’s new Gulf Europe Transit (GET) integrated route connects FALCON through terrestrial partner segments in Iraq and Turkey to Equinix Frankfurt)

The FLAP markets (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris) continue to act as a gateway for more than 80 percent of Middle East traffic, mostly video. The Middle East market is growing in key areas like gaming and other bandwidth-hungry content. The resulting traffic expansion in the region means providers need added resilience and protections to leverage that growth with confidence. To meet this growing urgency, GCX experts looked off-net to integrated partner solutions with reliable and like-minded providers in the region. GET can be easily interconnected with other cable systems in countries which have FALCON landings.?

Speak with a GCX team member to learn more about increasing resilience and optionality in your priority growth markets.