IX Liverpool have announced that they are partnering with Liverpool City Region Data Centres (LCRDC) to extend their digital interconnection hub into their new Bootle (Sefton) Data Centre, which is scheduled to open in early 2025.
Liverpool City Region Data Centres are pioneers in creating and managing data centre space throughout the Liverpool City Region and have ambitious plans to extend their local footprint, with Bootle in Liverpool being the next planned data centre in it’s 2025 roll-out schedule.
Recently, IX Liverpool has entered into a partnership with LCRDC in order to expand it’s digital interconnection hubs and peering LAN at the growing list of LCRDC sites so that both members and customers of both organisations can interconnect their networks together.
The mutually beneficial partnership is set up so that each time LCRDC opens a new regional data centre, the IX Liverpool Interconnection Hub will be installed and available to members also, giving both members of IX Liverpool and customers of LCRDC access to IX Liverpool services.
The first one of the partnership locations that went live on 1st September 2024 was LCRDC’s 6800sqft Liverpool City King Edward site located by Princes Dock, just north of the city centre, followed on the 1st October 2024, with the Liverpool City Queens facility located within the Baltic Triangle, just south of the the city.
Once live (in early 2025), LCRDC’s new Bootle Data Centre will host a digital interconnection hub, and be the first time that Sefton has it’s own neutral open internet exchange for members to connect to and begin local peering.
