Troll Housing chooses TransPacket for data center connectivity

Troll Housing, which offers data center services and Ethernet connectivity to European customers, has chosen H1 network nodes from Norwegian startup TransPacket to connect its new data centers.

Troll Housing, headquartered in Eide, Norway, offers isolated and deterministic Ethernet service interconnection with a fixed latency of as low as 24 ms to major European markets. The company is placing data centers near clean energy sources close to the Norwegian fjords – and will use the TransPacket H1 network nodes to deliver fixed, very low network latency for interconnecting these data centers.

“In an initial configuration, Troll Housing will use a TransPacket H1 unit in Molde to allow low‐latency aggregation of customer traffic onto a fixed latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet wavelength to Oslo, where a second unit allows connections to a router in Oslo as well as fixed low-latency bypass to a router in Amsterdam,” explains Troll Housing CEO Lars Eivind Naas. “The solution enables fixed low‐latency and high-capacity connection between the central Internet hub AMS‐IX in Amsterdam and the environmentally friendly data center in Eide. By using TransPacket H1 network nodes, we are able to bring green data center capacity to customers around the world, while using local hydroelectric power.”

The H1 nodes improve the capacity of Ethernet fiber-optic networks by minimizing wasted bandwidth (see "TransPacket validates performance with Symmetricom"). The systems enable Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections with very low latency, TransPacket asserts.

“With a capability of delivering completely isolated Gigabit Ethernet services over a common shared 10-gigabit transport path or wavelength, the TransPacket H1 gives a unique offering for serving several data center customers sharing the physical infrastructure. For further increasing the performance and reducing latency, the H1 allows offloading heavy processing tasks from any intermediate routers along a route enabling very efficient transmission. This also reduces router investment costs and power consumption significantly.” says Steinar Bjørnstad, CEO of TransPacket.

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