LuxConnect is a private company created under the initiative of the
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
government in 2006.
Its primary objectives are :
* the improvement of the national
dark fiber
A dark fibre or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication. Dark fibre may be leased from a network service provider.
Dark fibre originally referred to the potential network capacity of telecommunic ...
network;
* the building and operation of state of the art
data centers
A data center (American English) or data centre (British English)See spelling differences. is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommun ...
.
History
The company's key dates are:
* October 2006: Incorporation of LuxConnect S.A. by the State of Luxembourg as main shareholder.
* June 2009: The first data center (DC1.1) on the Bettembourg ICT campus is operational
* January 2011: The second data center (DC1.2) on the Bettembourg ICT campus is operational
* April 2012: The first data center (DC2) on the Bissen ICT campus is operational
* March 2016: Completion of the implementation of 1000 km optical cables within the country of Luxembourg
* Mid-2015: The third data center (DC1.3) on the Bettembourg ICT campus is operational
Product Portfolio
Dark fiber
LuxConnect owns and operates an optical fiber network consisting of more than 1.800 km of optical fiber cables across Luxembourg to redundantly connect all commercial data centers.
Data centers
LuxConnect currently operates four carrier neutral data centers across the country, providing 15.000 m
2 of net server space.
Three of these data centers are located in
Bettembourg
Bettembourg ( lb, Beetebuerg , german: Bettemburg) is a commune and town in southern Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Esch-sur-Alzette, which is part of the district of Luxembourg.
, the town of Bettembourg, which lies in the east of the c ...
and one is in
Bissen
Bissen ( ) is a commune and town in central Luxembourg, in the canton of Mersch. It is situated on the river Attert.
, the town of Bissen, which lies in the east of the commune, has a population of 3,021. Bissen is home to a steel factory, o ...
.
The data centers of LuxConnect are certified by the
Uptime Institute
451 Group is a New York City-based technology industry research firm. Through its Uptime Institute operating unit, the company provides research for data center operators. In December 2019, 451 Group sold an operating division, 451 Research, to in ...
.
- Data Center DC1.1
Tier IV Design certified in July 2013.
- Data Center DC1.2
Tier IV Design certified
- Data Center DC2
Tier IV and
Tier II Design certified in March 2014.
- Data Center DC1.3
Tier IV and
Tier II Design certified in May 2014.
LuxConnect operates the first green datacenter in Luxembourg, where the cooling is achieved by means of an absorption refrigerator using waste heat from a cogeneration plant.
HPC
LuxProvide S.A., as a 100% subsidiary of LuxConnect, is in charge of the acquisition, launch and operation of MeluXina, the supercomputer installed in LuxConnect's Data Center DC2 in Bissen.
Cloud
Clarence is the result of a partnership between LuxConnect and Proximus. This joint venture's goal is to create a disconnected sovereign cloud, designed to retain control over the integrity of data and access to it, but also, from an operational point of view, to ensure that all operations are realized on European soil and subject only to European jurisdictions.
LuxConnect and Proximus present joint project Clarence
RTL Today, 26/10/2023
External links
LuxConnect website
LU-CIX website
LuxProvide website
References
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Communications in Luxembourg