Telehouse is a major carrier-neutral
colocation, information and communications technology services provider based in
Docklands,
London
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. Established in 1988, it operates in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Part of the global Telehouse network of data centres, the brand has more than 45 colocation facilities in more than 20 major cities around the world including Istanbul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Tokyo, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles.
KDDI
() is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was established in 2000 through the merger of , , and . In 2001, it merged with a subsidiary named Au, which was formed through the merger of seven automotive and mobile phone companies from t ...
, Telehouse's Japanese telecommunications and systems integration parent company, operates data centre facilities in America and Asia.
Operations
London
Operational since 1990, Telehouse North became Europe's first purpose-built neutral colocation facility.
LINX
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* Linx (railway company), a now defunct Norwegian-Swedish railway company
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traffic has been moving through the carrier-neutral Telehouse campus since its opening. Telehouse hosts the vast majority of internet peering traffic from LINX.
It is the main hub of the
Internet
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in the
United Kingdom
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. In response to growing demand for a
Central London
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location, Telehouse opened an additional colocation facility in 1997, Telehouse Metro, in the
London Borough of Islington
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near
Silicon Roundabout, Telehouse Metro later closed in 2020.
A second building at the Docklands site, Telehouse East, was opened in 1999 and the construction of a third building, Telehouse West, at its Docklands site was completed in March 2010. In July 2014 KDDI announced that a fourth building North Two
would be built on the site, adjacent to the existing Telehouse North building. In August 2016, Telehouse Europe opened $177 million North Two data center of 24,000 square meters, increasing its capacity at the Docklands site where it already had 73,000 square meters of space.
According to Telehouse, North Two is the only UK data center to own a 132 kV on-campus grid substation that is directly connected to the
National Grid, reducing transmission losses and improving power density and service continuity. North Two also utilizes the first multi-storey
adiabatic cooling system in the world, delivering an industry-leading 1.16
PUE. The site has a capacity of up to 73 MVA in total.
Telehouse London is the primary home of the
London Internet Exchange
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is an Internet exchange point (IXP) providing peering to over 950 different autonomous systems (ASNs). Established in 1994 in London, LINX operates IXPs in London, Manchester, Scotland, and Wales in the ...
since 1994, while UK internet exchanges like
LONAP
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are also present.
In 2012, Telehouse built their own primary substation, at 50MVA and two 132kVA power lines directly connected to the high voltage power network for the London Docklands site.
As of March 2019, Telehouse London North is listed as most populated datacenter in
EMEA
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by the data center rankings, working with over 530 network carriers, ISPs and ASPs, including
Amazon Web Services
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,
Google Cloud Platform
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and
Microsoft Azure
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, as well as CenturyLink,
Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering Internet transit, tools, and network applications, as well as data center colocation and hosting services at one location in San Jose, California and two locations in Fremont, Cal ...
,
Interoute
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, Voxility, TeliaSonera and
NTT communications
is a Japanese telecommunications company owned by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. It operates an international network across over 190 countries and regions, with locations in more than 70 countries and regions. The company has ...
. Existing Telehouse customers can interconnect to any of these parties via a cross connect.
Paris
Telehouse Europe operates three sites in
Paris
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:
*
Telehouse Paris Jeûneurs. Opened in 1996 near the famous
Rue du Sentier.
*
Telehouse Paris Voltaire which opened in 1998.
*
Telehouse Magny-Les-Hameaux (
Yvelines
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:
*
Telehouse Frankfurt. Opened in 2012, Telehouse acquired one of Germany's largest colocation sites, Databurg.
References
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Data centres in the United Kingdom
KDDI
Internet hosting
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Internet in the United Kingdom
Internet in France
Infrastructure in London
Internet technology companies of the United Kingdom
Media and communications in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets