The Marseille connection via cable
at 10 GB . It is huge !” He cites Airbus , which manages its pan-European business via a single 10 GB link between Hamburg and Toulouse .
It ’ s a no brainer , he believes , for the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn to either move some of their platforms from FLAP to Marseille , or simply to build new capacity at the gateway to their largest opportunity for expansion . “ It is a complete revolution in how to organise traffic between Europe and Africa !” No wonder then that Interxion France expects as much of this year ’ s order intake to be generated in Marseille as in its seven Paris datacentres .
Marseille could replicate the Stockholm effect . When Coquio noticed that his smallest facility in Sweden did more business one year than it had in the preceding 15 he wondered what the staff were on . The answer lay in a newly laid cable that cut latency to five milliseconds ( ms ). Since American players , among
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