Infradata : Driving digital innovation with Eurofiber
Infradata and Eurofiber celebrate 10 years of being proactive partners as they work to secure and connect European cities
When the Dutch Government designates your work as being crucial to the infrastructure of the country it is essential you partner with the best . This is exactly what Eurofiber did 10 years ago by choosing Infradata as their trusted system integrator .
About the customer
A decade later and the seamless partnership between Eurofiber and Infradata , which focuses on network and security , is still going strong as they work together at an incredible pace . Eurofiber lays 160 kms of fibre optic cable each month to achieve their goal of helping European cities stay connected . In total they have laid nearly 40,000km of fibre across Europe .
Proactive partnership
Commenting on the long partnership , Daniel Danon , Managing Director Eurofiber Cloud Infrastructure said : Our network is based on equipment they manage with us and that equipment is an integral part of all of the service level agreements - our promise to customers .”
Nick Vaes , Director Network Operator at Eurofiber , highlighted that when they started to work with Infradata they only had dark fibre .
“ We partnered with Infradata for our active layer of the network . This ensures we are capable of delivering services , not only to our direct customers , but also through all the partners at the indirect channels .
“ It is a very proactive partnership , thinking together , evolving the network , and looking at what is going to happen in the future . It ’ s a partnership that is building a strong network to serve our customers .”
Taimen Boumans , Managing Director of The Netherlands at Infradata , echoed the sentiment saying the overlap in DNA between the two Dutch companies has deepened the partnership over the years .
“ All the proposals and the projects we design and help deploy for Eurofiber provide quality , cost-effectiveness and also predictability is very important .”
Commenting on the current work to upgrade the core network infrastructure to 100G , Boumans said : “ What we see happening in the market is that demands for those solutions are picking up . Technology is a step ahead of market demands . We already find ourselves exploring 400G .
“ Eurofiber is expanding into many new markets like Belgium , Germany , France and moving into consumer markets . This is a nice overlap for us as we cover the same digital footprint so we find ourselves also exploring and widening the partnership in those areas as we move forward and taking it to the next level .”
Early challenges
Commenting on what challenges Infradata had to overcome during the early days of working with Eurofiber , Sjaak Lemmers , Account Director of Infradata said : “ It started as dark fibre only , just the cables and no services in the early days . We helped Eurofiber to build and offer an IP service portfolio which is now formally assigned to as vital infrastructure by the government .”
High-speed band-width
Giving an example of a mission critical infrastructure project , Infradata has successfully been involved in with Eurofiber , Lemmers highlighted in 2017 they started to replace the older part of the networks to improve automation for provisioning . “ This also enables us to grow the bandwidth to a scalable platform .
“ The high-speed band-width project is a great example of our partnership with Eurofiber . We are expanding the bandwidth in the core to new generation equipment . And at the same time , this enables Eurofiber to keep the same processes and working relations , improve the performance and keep ahead of the market demands ,” he said .
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To find out how Infradata is partnering with Eurofiber you can read the latest issue of Mobile Magazine here .
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