Steve Davis 
The case for regional Internet Exchanges LINX, one of the first internet exchanges in the UK, was established in London in the mid 1990’s by a small number of ISP’s. At that time internet traffic was routed across the Atlantic to US internet exchanges incurring significant costs and time delays. The goal of the early … Read more
Edge data centres are vital to avoid network congestion in the UK. Akamai, one of the leading CDNs recently announced a record breaking 250 Tbps of web traffic being delivered over its network. This was up from 100 Tbps in October 2019. To get an idea of context, this is the same as a user … Read more
Harnessing edge data centres to local fibre and 5G networks is key At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Meta was pushing the fact that the current network structures will not support the dramatic improvements in latency, symmetrical bandwidth and overall speeds required for the new generation of applications they are now developing for … Read more
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Proximity has again been recognised in STL’s top 100 edge companies to watch in 2022. Building on our notable achievements in 2021, we have just announced the acquisition of a new data centre Edge 8 in Birmingham UK. Read more here: https://stlpartners.com/articles/edge-computing/edge-computing-companies-2022/
STL have again recognised Proximity’s leading position in edge data centre companies. We were the only UK headquartered company to be named in the report. Earlier this year we were spotlighted in STL’s report on Edge computing companies to watch in 2021. STL are the pre-eminent consultants in the rapidly growing sector of Edge Computing. … Read more
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