The data centre driving the region’s tech capabilities

Following a £38m, Athena Data Centres is aiming to provide one of the best connected data centre operations in the UK, with Birmingham as its central hub of operations.

Athena Datacentres, part of the Athena Vaults Group, has partnered with Wavenet, an a network carrier and provider of unified communications, to deliver Layer 2 and Layer 3 services, including IP Transit, to all Athena Datacentre and cloud customers at Athena’s newly launched, state-of-the-art data centre in Central Birmingham.

As a direct result of this partnership, Athena Datacentres is directly connected to Wavenet’s diverse fibre backbone that runs from Manchester to London Docklands into multiple data centres over a route resilient fibre path.

Athena Vaults Group CEO Andy Acton said: “We are delighted that Wavenet have chosen to deploy a PoP in our Birmingham Data Centre, in which we have recently invested several million pounds to create one of the region’s best Colocation facilities. As a leading provider of Voice & Data solutions, Wavenet will add significant value to our current Colocation and Cloud service offerings by enabling faster connectivity to clients connected to Wavenet’s extensive network.”

He added: “Attracting carriers such as Wavenet to the Data Centre aligns with our strategic plans to be one of the best-connected datacentre operators in the UK. Our relationship with Wavenet allows us to offer clients Layer 2 Multi 10Gbps connectivity to over 50 data centres in the UK, multi-homed IP transit, Dedicated Point to Point connections from anywhere in the UK straight into client racks as well MPLS and SDWAN services”

Wavenet CEO Bill Dawson said: “The launch of Athena datacentres’ Birmingham campus brings an immense opportunity not only for Wavenet but for the wider business community of the whole of West Midlands region. For Managed Service Providers like Wavenet, it is absolutely essential to ensure that critical infrastructure is hosted in a safe, highly accredited and resilient environment which Athena DC certainly delivers, most importantly, to our doorstep. We are very excited to strategically partner with a local Data Centre organisation at a time when Birmingham is going through an exciting phase of regional growth with billions of pounds of inwards investments.”