{"id":114208,"date":"2025-01-14T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/?p=114208"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:56:03","slug":"new-partnership-agreement-with-megaport-to-expand-connectivity-across-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/new-partnership-agreement-with-megaport-to-expand-connectivity-across-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"New partnership agreement with Megaport to expand connectivity across Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TOP-IX (TOrino Piemonte Internet eXchange), a non-profit consortium created to increase the development of Internet infrastructure in the North-West of Italy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megaport.com\/megaport-enabled-locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Megaport<\/a>, the global leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announced a new partnership that will expand connectivity across Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The partnership will see TOP-IX use Megaport\u2019s global Software Defined Network (SDN) to offer its customers seamless, low-latency connections to major cloud services enabling faster deployment of cloud-based applications. TOP-IX will provide greater connectivity options for its customers, who will now have access to Megaport\u2019s hybrid, multicloud, and edge connectivity solutions in more than 930 locations worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe next wave of interconnection and cloud infrastructures will need a dynamic mix of solutions in order to enable robust, flexible and federated paradigms. TOP-IX aims at being an interconnection gateway to global providers according to its neutral and open nature\u201d, said <strong>Leonardo Camiciotti<\/strong>, Executive Director of TOP-IX. \u201cThis partnership with Megaport represents a concrete step to turn this vision of global and agile network fabrics into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to team up with TOP-IX as we continue our expansion into Italy,\u201d said <strong>Michael Reid<\/strong>, CEO of Megaport. \u201cThey\u2019ve embraced our NaaS platform, tapping into simple, secure, and scalable connectivity. Now TOP-IX\u2019s customers can build agile networks in just a few clicks, ready to power their next wave of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Megaport revolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Megaport is changing how businesses connect their infrastructure, with one smart and simple platform to manage every connection. Build secure, scalable, and agile networks in just a few clicks, accessing global endpoints and creating private paths in minutes. Trusted by the world\u2019s leading companies, Megaport partners with global service providers, DC operators, systems integrators, and managed services companies, and operates in 930+ enabled locations worldwide. Megaport is ISO\/IEC 27001 certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOP-IX (TOrino Piemonte Internet eXchange), a non-profit consortium created to increase the development of Internet infrastructure in the North-West of Italy, and Megaport, the global leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announced a new partnership that will expand connectivity across Italy. The partnership will see TOP-IX use Megaport\u2019s global Software Defined Network (SDN) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":114205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,307],"tags":[1068],"class_list":["post-114208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-internet-exchange","tag-connectivity"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114209,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114208\/revisions\/114209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}