Infinera’s InP photonic integrated circuits include a 100Gb/s transmit PIC and 100Gb/s (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Interoute ( www.interoute.com ) and Infinera ( www.infinera.com ) announced last week they have completed a demonstration of Infinera’s new 500Gb/s photonic integrated circuits, which deliver 100Gb/s channels, on the Interoute pan-European network. Taking place between Amsterdam and London, this marks the first demonstration of Infinera’s PIC-based 100Gb/s channels transmitted on a European network. Interoute, whose pan-European network was the first in Europe to deploy Infinera’s 100Gb/s photonic integrated circuits more than three years ago, is planning to use Infinera’s systems based on 100Gb/s channels enabled by 500 Gb/s PICs to ensure it continues to support Europe’s demand for high capacity bandwidth

Infinera’s InP photonic integrated circuits include a 100Gb/s transmit PIC and 100Gb/s (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Interoute ( www.interoute.com ) and Infinera ( www.infinera.com ) announced last week they have completed a demonstration of Infinera’s new 500Gb/s photonic integrated circuits, which deliver 100Gb/s channels, on the Interoute pan-European network. Taking place between Amsterdam and London, this marks the first demonstration of Infinera’s PIC-based 100Gb/s channels transmitted on a European network.

Inside INetU’s data center in Allentown, Pennsylvania (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting and cloud provider INetU ( www.inetu.net ) announced on Friday it has expanded international with the launch of its hosting services in an Amsterdam-based data center, designed for international clients. The expansion news comems just weeks after INetU passed a third-party independent audit to meet ISAE 340 2 international accounting compliance standards, making it the company’s first step towards accomodating international clients

Web Hosting News – Orlando, FL – VPSLatch.net announces it has expanded its global portfolio of managed VPS hosting packages from existing Orlando in the United States to also include Amsterdam, Netherlands and Maidenhead, United Kingdom. “With today’s internet user, the browsing experience is often constrained by the responsiveness of web servers,” said Adam Jackson, VPSLatch CEO. “There is nothing worse than falling victim to lag of a trans-Atlantic bounce as data is relayed from USA to Europe and beyond.

Equinix, Inc. [NASDAQ: EQIX], a leader in global data center services and colocation Web hosting, said it has teamed up with private equity firm Riverwood Capital to acquire nearly 90 percent of ALOG Data Centers of Brazil S.A. for $127 million in cash

Con Zwinkels, managing director and founder of LeaseWeb (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Based in the Netherlands, web hosting provider LeaseWeb ( www.leaseweb.com ) has been offering hosting services throughout Europe for more than a decade. But after 13 years, the company has decided to venture outside of Europe and expand into the highly competitive market of the United States.

The carrier hotel at 111 8th Ave in New York, acquired by Google from Digital Realty Trust (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center construction was in full swing throughout 2010, as companies scrambled to meet the rapidly growing infrastructure demands of enterprises around the world. There was a noticeable increase in data center buildouts and expansions, particularly when compared to 2009 — the year the recession really started taking its toll across all industry sectors, bringing many data center projects to a standstill

Website Hosting News – Amsterdam – Equinix, a provider of global data center services, today announced that Cyso, a Dutch provider of cloud services, has moved its operations into Equinix’s fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in the Netherlands (AM2).  The IBX data center officially opened today at the company’s grand opening event. Cyso, one of the first ISPs in the Netherlands, recently decided to move its data center operations into Equinix’s state of the art AM2 IBX data center to expand its offering to encompass cloud services.  Cyso selected Platform Equinix to offer its services on a global scale, allowing it to meet the needs of customers, no matter where they reside.

An artist rendering of LeaseWeb’s new data center in Manassas, Virginia (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dutch Web host LeaseWeb ( www.leaseweb.com ) announced on Monday it has acquired Frankfurt-based Web host netdirekt ( www.netdirekt.de ). With this acquisition, LeaseWeb hopes to offer its solutions and services across the German-speaking markets and become the leading Web host in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Website Hosting News – LONDON – Telecity Group plc (‘TelecityGroup’ or the ‘Group’), Europe’s industry leading provider of premium network-independent data center, announces a new 9MW, 6,000 sq.m, data center in its core Amsterdam market. The new, centrally located, facility will be linked into TelecityGroup’s existing four data center in Amsterdam. As such, it will become part of the city’s main internet hub, offering ultra high levels of connectivity from opening