EXA Infrastructure has brought online two new high-capacity fibre routes designed to deepen connections between major European data centre hubs. The Milan-Zurich link and the Paris-Vienna corridor are central to the company's strategy for expanding its continental network footprint and offering customers greater flexibility in routing traffic across the region and beyond.
The 335km Milan-Zurich route completes EXA's broader 1,050km Frankfurt-Zurich-Milan-Genoa corridor, establishing a direct pathway between critical data centre markets and the subsea cable landing point at Genoa. EXA describes this Alpine crossing as the first carrier-grade, low-loss G.652.D single-operated cable along this route. The infrastructure incorporates hundreds of fibres and multiple equipment sites engineered to scale capacity in line with rising demand.
The second route, stretching approximately 1,600km between Paris and Vienna, functions as part of a longer chain that ultimately connects London to the Balkans and Turkey, with onward connectivity to the Middle East. The Paris-Vienna segment also creates fresh pathways between Paris, Frankfurt and Vienna, positioning the route to absorb traffic arriving in Europe via transatlantic submarine cables.
Both routes deliver dark fibre, spectrum and wavelength services to customers.
Steve Roberts, Head of Strategic Investments and Product Management at EXA Infrastructure, commented on the strategic rationale: "AI and cloud traffic has outgrown the idea that diversity means a backup path. Customers want a choice of routes they can design around resilience, latency and capacity requirements. With Milan-Zurich we have completed a corridor that gives Frankfurt, Milan and Genoa the high-capacity connectivity they need, and with Paris-Vienna we have strengthened the route from London to the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East."
Roberts added: "Both are built to meet the demand our customers are planning for and extend our low-loss G.652.D footprint across Europe."
