Colt Technology Services is expanding its Istanbul network to meet growing demand for infrastructure capacity and support companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation plans.
The global digital infrastructure company’s high-performance infrastructure in Turkiye is connected to two established data centers in major financial and commercial hubs, one on the Asian side of Istanbul and one on the European side, providing enterprises with high-capacity services built for AI-driven workloads.
Before the expansion, Colt operated a single point of presence (PoP) in Istanbul. The addition of a second PoP and upgrades to Colt’s network capabilities in the city are described as “significantly” enhancing resiliency and reach.
The company also believes this expansion will ensure domestic and international customers have access to a broad portfolio of next-generation, scalable networking services designed to support the growing demand for cloud deployments, data-intensive workloads, and AI-driven applications where high bandwidth and secure, flexible connectivity are critical.
Kort pointed out that Istanbul is one of the few cities in the world that physically straddles two continents, making it a natural interconnection point between Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Africa.
The provider highlighted that for Colt customers and partners, the region’s digital infrastructure can create alternative east-west and north-south routes and provide direct connectivity to Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and parts of North Africa.
It also reduces reliance on a small number of traditional Western European hubs, improves redundancy and failover for customers around the world, enables more resilient global connectivity and reduced risk, and enables shorter, more direct data paths between regions. This means fewer network hops compared to routing traffic only through Western Europe.
High performance connectivity
As a result of this expansion, customers can benefit from scalable, high-performance connectivity, including Colt’s optical, packet Ethernet, and enterprise IP services, delivering reliable and secure network capabilities at speeds of up to 100 Gbps to support AI ambitions, mission-critical applications, and large-scale digital transformation efforts, Colt said.
Colt added that this strengthens its ability to support large enterprises, wholesale and carrier customers, and hyperscalers and neoscalers investing in high-growth markets.
“Factors such as AI workloads, cloud adoption, and digital transformation are rapidly increasing the demand for high-capacity, low-latency infrastructure in Turkiye and the surrounding region,” said Joe Scattereggia, executive vice president of infrastructure and connectivity sales at Colt.
“Strengthening our local presence in Istanbul means we can serve domestic enterprise customers, meet their data residency, performance and resiliency requirements, and support hyperscalers and neoscalers moving into the region. This is an exciting part of our continued investment in building superior infrastructure that will power the global AI economy.”
