Zayo Europe opens Genoa PoP to boost Mediterranean links

Mediterranean growth

Zayo Europe has opened a new Point of Presence in Genoa, extending its Southern European network.

Housed in Quadrivium Digital's QGEN01 facility, the new PoP adds Genoa to Zayo Europe's existing footprint in Milan and Rome. The expansion is intended to link rising volumes of Mediterranean subsea traffic with its terrestrial backbone across Europe.

Genoa has become a more prominent landing point for new cable systems connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East with Europe. That has increased the city's importance for network operators seeking additional routes into major European connectivity centres.

Alternative routes

The Genoa PoP provides an alternative path into hubs including Frankfurt, Paris, Barcelona and Lisbon. It gives carriers, cloud providers and enterprises another option alongside traffic flows that have often passed through Marseille.

The move is part of a broader push to expand connectivity across Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, giving customers more flexibility in how they route traffic to core European hubs and international gateways.

Quadrivium Digital also stands to gain, with customers in the QGEN01 facility getting direct access to Zayo Europe's network, which connects more than 600 on-net data centres across Europe.

Aditya Ayyagari, Chief Executive Officer of Quadrivium Digital, highlighted the significance of the link for the facility's role in regional interconnection.

Regional interconnection

"This partnership positions QGEN01 as a key interconnection hub in the Mediterranean ecosystem," said Aditya Ayyagari, Chief Executive Officer of Quadrivium Digital. "By combining direct access to new subsea systems with Zayo Europe's diverse terrestrial routes, we are enabling customers to efficiently reach key traffic hubs like Barcelona and Lisbon as well as the U.S. while achieving greater route diversity and lower latency across global networks."

Zayo Europe operates across 16 countries and connects 47 markets, with a network spanning more than 3.3 million fibre kilometres and eight subsea systems. Genoa's addition strengthens a southern gateway into Europe as subsea traffic corridors across the Mediterranean continue to develop.

Customer demand

"The digital map of Europe is evolving and our expansion into Genoa is a direct response to our customers' need for greater resilience and choice. By connecting this important Mediterranean landing point to our 400G-enabled backbone, we are creating a seamless bridge between subsea systems and our terrestrial infrastructure. Ultimately, this ensures our customers have access to the scalable, high-capacity connectivity required to support the next wave of cloud and AI-driven growth," said Colman Deegan, Chief Executive Officer of Zayo Europe.