Nordic Connectivity 19 June, 2017 Name of presenter NEW BIG DATACENTERS HAVE CHALLANGING REQUIREMENTS • ”Cold” places • Green energy ONLY Is this really were the • Politically stable countries worlds fibers are? • No seismographic activities • High power knowledge and experience 19 June 2017 2 NORDICS – A WELL CONNECTED PLACE WILL BE EVEN MORE CONNECTED Within Sweden and Finland there are a number of existing nationwide networks based on fiber NORDICS – THE FIBRE SITUATION • Multiple national networks provide redundancy but the countries are quite different • Sweden • Finland • Denmark • Norway • Very little fiber built the last 10 years • Except for fiber to the home • The Capital cities are VERY well connected • The Baltics are still quite ”underdeveloped” • Except for Tallinn • Major links to Russia where 90 million internet users live • In 2007, NetNod, the Internet Exchange in Stockholm had 44 TRAFFIC GROWTH & CONNECTIVITYInternet networks STOCKHOLM connected, 2 Russian networks. (RETN and Nordic traffic growth * Comstar) +122% • 2016, NetNod has over 125 connected networks: ‒ Akamai, Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Edgecast, Facebook, +157% GoDaddy, Google, IBM Softlayer, LeaseWeb, Limelight, +248% Microsoft, Netflix, Riot Games, Twitch, Twitter and Vkontakte +134% jul.14 jul.15 jul.16 jan.14 okt.14 jan.15 okt.15 jan.16 okt.16 jan.17 apr.15 apr.16 apr.14 ‒ 10 major Russian companies and first African operators Stockholm Oslo Helsinki Copenhagen 1, 1, 2017 FEBRUARY DYN DYN RANKINGS. * Traffic growth as seen in AS1299 5 18 of Europe's 20 largest IP networks and 13 of the 20 largest Global IP networks exists in Stockholm LATENCY IS ALL ABOUT THE DISTANCE 725km 4,84ms 4 000 000 people 1 034km 6,9ms 35 000 000 people 2 797km 20,5ms 300 000 000 people 6 2011.05.11 Internal Confidential SWEDEN – A CONNECTIVITY SUMMARY It is very unlikely that fiber connectivity will be the problem when selecting your location for your next data center Services range from simple Point to Point systems to complete Managed Network Services Prices are competitive and several options exist .