In addition to the national vocation, Namex Bari will also have an international role linked to the presence of submarine cables, such as the ICT roads that connect Bari with other countries in the Mediterranean area, the Middle East and Asia. In particular, all the operators present in the Namex Bari infrastructure will be able to benefit from the presence of Retelit, owner of the Bari cable landing station of the optical fiber submarine system AAE-1, a high speed connectivity between Asia, Africa and Europe, and host of the Italian terminal of IG-1, the cable connecting Italy and Greece.

“These ICT highways, together with the presence of Namex Bari, can give the city the role of Intercontinental Internet Port. Thanks to the presence in the region of landing stations of international submarine cables, the Namex Bari carrier neutral data center could be a candidate to host content for users in some countries of the Mediterranean basin and to become a point of interconnection between European and non-European operators.” said Renato Brunetti, Namex President.

“We are pleased with the initiative of Namex to start a new IXP in our city because we believe it will represent a new attractor of development opportunities for the territory. The city of Bari is confirmed as the nerve center in the field of Information Technology for the South of the country and the Mediterranean area. The city is already at the junction of several submarine cables that connect Europe to the Middle East, Asia and other Mediterranean countries. The presence of an IXP and a carrier neutral datacenter managed by Namex will be determining factors of the strategy that aims to make our city a reference point in the digital innovation.” said the deputy mayor and councilor for technological innovation of the Municipality of Bari, Eugenio Di Sciascio.