History

In Interoute's short history, the Company has also made history.

Since the launch of the Interoute network, customers have trusted us with mission-critical projects such as providing the backbone network for Europe's major mobile operators and digitally broadcasting major events such as the Olympics, elections and prime-time TV shows. We have come to the rescue of some of the world's leading financial institutions, guaranteeing a 24/7 connection with the Middle East during subsea outages. E-commerce companies entrust their entire business to Interoute when we host their web-servers and customer data in our data centres. Large enterprise customers depend on Interoute for secure connectivity between their offices worldwide.

Completed at the end of 2002, Interoute was expanded through the acquisition of GTS/Ebone's metropolitan fibre assets that same year, media services assets in 2003, an Eastern European fibre network in 2004, PSINet Europe/Via's managed hosting services in 2005, a managed services company in Bulgaria in 2006, 51 Degrees a London Metro business and a Swedish hosting company in 2007.

Spanning the Continent from Dublin to Moscow, from Sweden to Sicily, Interoute is the only Next Generation Network to cover the majority of the European Union, and beyond into Turkey. In less than a decade of operation, Interoute's network has become key to Europe's digital supply chain, and is now recognized as a leader in providing services to both Carriers and Enterprises.

The network footprint runs more than 55,000 kilometres with backbone/long-haul connectivity to 100 cities and metropolitan area networks (MANs) in 21 of those cities. The building assets comprise over 100,000m² of space ranging from carrier specification up to world class Data Centre grade. With operations in 29 countries, and with over 200 points of presence (PoPs), Interoute has both the extensive reach and the depth to meet customer requirements at minimal cost. The combined assets represent a total investment in excess of €2.7 billion.

Interoute's infrastructure uniquely supports the rapid deployment of new software-based products and services with high bandwidth demands, such as VOIP, digital media, virtual hosting, managed applications, and secure private networks (VPNs). 

For our enterprise customers we have developed a unique approach to meeting their fast-changing needs: Unified ICTâ„¢, which  offers all enterprise ICT infrastructure as a service delivered from a secure networking platform.  The goal is to simplify delivery and management,  making it easy and cost effective for customers to adapt their infrastructure to the changing needs of their business.  Supporting the concept of Unified ICTâ„¢ are three related ideas: Unified Connectivity, Unified Communications and Unified Computing. 

Every major European, Asian and U.S. operator links their networks to Interoute, in order to take advantage of our infrastructure. Many operators use Interoute to help them become full partners in the global telecoms marketplace. Examples include: SEACOM, the subsea cable system running the length of East Africa, Tunisie Telecom and GO and Gibtel, the incumbent operators of Malta and Gibraltar respectively.

Our Company serves not just the physical network needs of Europe; increasingly, it provides the platform for innovation across the communications field. For example, Interoute is the only European network to be certified by Microsoft to support the software giant's desktop-integrated VoIP products. And Interoute's dedication to communications technology development has won it recognition as a leading cloud-computing providing. As Interoute has grown, the telecommunications market has changed. A converged network for all services is not just a vision anymore, but it is the reality that Interoute provides. As the demand has increased for network services requiring large bandwidth, Interoute has filled that need.

Interoute is a successful financial story.

Originally the vision of the Sandoz Family Foundation, that investor was joined later by the Kingdom of Dubai to privately fund this massive civil works project for Europe.

Interoute's unparalleled asset allowed the Company to expand rapidly while maintaining tight cost controls, including a centralized operation in the heart of the European continent, Prague. Today, Interoute is an operationally profitable, self-funded business.