NETWORKING Rick Perry , Head of Subsea Partnerships , Vodafone Carrier Services
Sami Slim , Deputy Director , Telehouse France
Marseille , France of that data is also experiencing a generational shift .
Even during the past 18 months , the sharp uptick in global internet traffic thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this shift even further . According to Sami Slim , Deputy Director of Telehouse France , “ The emergence of bandwidth-intensive applications and the deployment of dense network infrastructure has increased the demand for capacity and more localised interconnection hubs .”
Enterprises seeking to locate content as close as possible to end-users in order to reduce strain on their networks and improve performance are “ a driving force for both submarine cable and data centre infrastructure ,” something which Slim adds has resulted in a “ sharp acceleration of submarine cable deployments due to traffic increase during the pandemic .”
Rick Perry , Head of Subsea Partnerships at Vodafone Carrier Services , agrees with Slim that the demands placed upon cabling infrastructure have increased in response
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