MDNX was a private telecommunications company located in

Bracknell Bracknell () is a large town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the Borough of Bracknell Forest. It lies to the east of Reading, south of Maidenhe ...

and

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. In December 2013 MDNX acquired the entire issued share capital of

Easynet Easynet was a managed services provider and delivered integrated networks, hosting and unified communications services to organisations globally. The company was later renamed Easynet Global Services, and a sister company, Easynet Connect, was fo ...

, a global provider of managed networking, hosting and cloud integration services, from LDC. The combined business went by the name of Easynet. Its

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was Mark Thompson. The company was acquired by

Interoute Interoute Communications Ltd was a privately held telecommunications company that operated large cloud services, cloud service platforms in Europe. On 23 February 2018, Interoute was acquired by GTT Communications for $2.3bn (€1.9bn); and the a ...

in September 2015. MDNX's origins lie in the former Siemens service group company, 'Solution1'. Thompson and colleague Wayne Churchill joined Solution1 in 2009, and decided to set up MDNX. Within months MDNX bought out 'Solution1' along with its customer base, acquired the retail section of ''

Viatel Viatel is a Dublin-based telecoms operator. Viatel was founded in 1991 by Martin Varsavsky. In 1994, it went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Four years later, Varsavsky sold his stake in Viatel for US$200 million and left the company. I ...

'', gaining fibre network and hosting sites, and CI-Net with

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and

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The mos ...

capability. The new company brand launched in 2010. In March 2012 MDNX was one of 12 companies that successfully bid for the provision of services to the UK

Public Services Network The Public Services Network (PSN) is a UK government's high-performance network, which helps public sector organisations work together, reduce duplication and share resources. It unified the provision of network infrastructure across the United ...

. In August 2012 MDNX acquired Octium (trading as Griffin and Iconnyx). In December 2013 MDNX acquired

. In September 2015 Interoute announced agreement to acquire MDNX (trading as Easynet) for £402m. On 23 February 2018, Interoute was acquired by

GTT Communications GTT Communications, Inc. (GTT), formerly Global Telecom and Technology, is a multinational telecommunications and internet service provider company with headquarters in McLean, Virginia, and incorporated in Delaware. GTT operates a Tier 1 IP ne ...

for $2.3bn (€1.9bn); the acquisition closed on 31 May 2018.

References

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Comms Business article on MDNX acquisition of Easynet December 2013

Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Bracknell {{Tech-company-stub