Exa Infrastructure and Ultranet have signed an agreement to construct a fiber route between Milan and Genoa in Italy.
The 175km fiber route includes an extension of Exa Infrastructure’s Genoa Metro network and will connect the existing cable landing stations - Lagaccio, Equinix, and the Genoa Open cable landing station.
Upon completion, Exa will offer an open landing platform for submarine cables and five distinct routes from Genoa, ensuring diversity from the Genoa, Lagaccio, and Equinix landing stations.
Steve Roberts, SVP of network investments and products at Exa Infrastructure, said: “This initiative aligns with Exa Infrastructure’s commitment to strengthening network resilience and expanding data transmission capacity, backed by its extensive experience in subsea and landing infrastructure. Partnering with Ultranet - a company with a proven track record in complex infrastructure projects - is a key component of this strategy”
Ultranet is an independent carrier-to-carrier operator and fiber infrastructure owner, managing a network of more than 12,000km in Italy. HGM Group is the parent company of Ultranet.
Exa Infrastructure is a portfolio company of I Squared Capital. The company owns more than 155,000km of fiber across 37 countries, including six transatlantic cables.
Genoa is currently a landing point for the 2Africa, Blue, and Medloop cables, with the Unitirreno and EMC West-1 cables set to join in the next two years.
Milan is Italy’s largest data center market, with the likes of Data4, Virtus, Keppel, AtlasEdge, Stack, Sparkle, Microsoft, Compass, CloudHQ, and Equinix having a presence in the city.
