MARSEILLE
PARIS
TELEGEOGRAPHY
France, the only country to appear twice in the top 10 European Internet hubs
France is the only country in the world to appear twice in the top 10 European Internet hubs (bandwidth-based ranking). That’s a strong message sent to the rest of the world.
Behind giants like Frankfurt and London, Paris ranks 4th and Marseille 7th.
No other country appears twice on the list.
At least, that’s what emerges from the ranking established by TeleGeography, the world reference in network infrastructure mapping.
TeleGeography doesn’t rank cities based on their notoriety or size. It evaluates markets across seven categories: network connectivity, internet exchanges, cloud infrastructure, data centers, power availability, economic activity, and governance.
It’s a kind of X-ray of a hub’s real internet power.
And among the results, one of them is quite surprising: Marseille.
In 11 years, the city has climbed from 44th to 7th place, the fastest rise ever recorded in this ranking.
The reason is simple: geography.
Marseille is the natural landing point for submarine cables connecting Europe to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia:
What’s interesting for you is that France-IX is present in both cities, with a point of presence in Paris and one in Marseille. This means that by connecting to either of these two hubs via France-IX, you gain access to the other’s ecosystem.
Two of the top ten European Internet hubs accessible from a single connection.
That’s a position very few players can offer. And it’s a position that France, the only country doubly represented in this top 10, is the only one able to make possible.
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