Europe Data Center Interconnect Market Share

Market Share of Europe Data Center Interconnect Industry

The European data center interconnect market is semi-consolidated with the presence of major players like Huawei Technologies, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Infinera Corporation, and Nokia Corporation. Players in the market are adopting strategies such as partnerships and acquisitions to enhance their product offerings and gain sustainable competitive advantage.

• In 2023, Germany was Europe’s second-largest colocation market. Over the past five years, the growth of the data center market in Germany has been driven by the digital transformation strategies adopted by enterprises, the introduction of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, and the implementation of the GDPR. About 80% of the organizations in Germany use cloud services for one or more services, which has increased and is projected to register a CAGR of 3-5% over the next 3-5 years. Given the high growth rate of service data as well as the high cost of the network operation, German data center service provider aixit announced that it has decided to create connectivity for non-blocking the data flow and seamless expansion across the data centers in the next decade. aixit announced that it would build its own DCI network with Huawei’s DC OptiX.
• In October 2022, Nokia announced an expanded partnership with NL-ix, Europe's largest distributed internet exchange provider. Nokia would supply its advanced 7750 SR-s platforms powered by its ground-breaking routing silicon, FP5. With this deployment, NL-ix can provide 400GE and 800GE access and interconnection services to its national research and education network (NREN) and cloud provider clients.

Europe Data Center Interconnect Market Leaders

1. Huawei Technologies

2. Ciena Corporation

3. Cisco Systems Inc.

4. Infinera Corporation

5. Nokia Corporation

*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order