Premium carrier neutral data centre incorporates Poland's largest internet exchange.

TelecityGroup, Europe's leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement to acquire PLIX, the most-connected independent colocation business in Warsaw, Poland, which also incorporates the largest Polish internet exchange.

PLIX customers include major international and domestic leaders in communications, cloud, content and applications, underlining the strategic importance of the data centre. The PLIX internet exchange, meanwhile, is experiencing strong growth and has over 220 members and 300Gbits/s peak bandwidth throughput, making it the seventh largest such exchange in Europe and the eleventh largest globally.

Sylwester Biernacki, founder and CEO of PLIX, who will become Managing Director of TelecityGroup Poland, said: "Poland is fast becoming an extremely important European and international internet hub. The agreement to combine our business with Europe's leading datacentre provider will be a tremendous opportunity for PLIX and the region as a whole."

Michel Tobin, CEO of TelecityGroup, said: "Poland is an important and growing European and international internet hub and as a result there is significant and increasing demand for highly connected premium data centre capacity. Within this market, TelecityGroup has identified the best available combination of connectivity and premium infrastructure, located at the centre of the region's internet hub activities. We look forward to welcoming Sylwester and his excellent team to TelecityGroup."

Today, TelecityGroup also announced its acquisition of 3DC, Bulgaria's leading independent data centre provider. Both acquisitions are as a result of TelecityGroup's ongoing capacity expansion programme to enter new and strategic European markets.

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