All the news about the Montreal data center and telecommunication industry.
Around two weeks ago, Compass Datacenters (FKA. Root Data Center) has sent a letter to its retail colocation customers in Montreal. The company is giving its retail clients in its 2 Montreal data centers until March 2021 to find another data center for their IT. From small half-cab clients to 10+ rack clients, all of …
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The Quebec Internet Exchange has just announced that they will be adding a new data center POP to their network. This new POP at 2800 Trans-Canada route is a massive addition to the peering ecosystem in Montreal that was previously limited to a very small selection of data centers in downtown. 2020-08-25 – QIX will …
Altough the Montreal colocation market has been quiet in the last few months, Hypertec have visibly kept their pace going in the retail and wholesale markets. As their YUL01-A building has been filled up to the last few available KWs, the company has just put a new retail pod online in its second building, YUL01-B. …
In a letter sent to clients this morning, Susan Bowen, President and CEO of Aptum Technologies announced that a transaction with Beanfield Metroconnect was done. Dear Customer, Following a decision by Aptum Technologies to exit the WAN fibre business, we wish to announce that on May 1 a transaction was completed with Beanfield Metroconnect whereby …
Beanfield Metroconnect takes over Aptum’s fiber services Read More »
Data centers considered as an essential service by the Quebec Government
It is no secret that Montreal is gaining a lot of traction in the data center space. If there is one thing that data centers need to deliver their services to the outside world, it’s connectivity. Until today, Montreal had a fair bit of connectivity towards Toronto, New York, and Halifax. However, with most major …
Zayo adds more capacity between Montreal and the USA Read More »
