IRU
Long-term indefeasible rights of use, if you want to hold the capacity outright.
SECTORS / CARRIERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
Reach you don't have to build.
The Atlantic crossing, the backbone across Europe, the routes south through the Mediterranean and the Balkans, and the landing points into North America. One operator for all of it, on IRU, lease or managed capacity terms.
The route, the SLA and the repair.
All three are ours. Nobody in the middle to escalate through, and no waiting while someone else's supplier decides how urgent your outage is.
9
diverse transatlantic systems
180,000+
route km of fibre and duct
500+
DWDM PoPs across Europe and into North America
How you buy
One network, several commercial models.
Raw network access on infrastructure EXA owns end to end. Dark fibre IRUs and leases, plus duct, across 174,500 route km of terrestrial routes and EXA's subsea systems. You build on the physical layer, EXA owns it.
Leased capacity
Flexible leased capacity across transatlantic and pan-European routes, without a long-term commitment.
Managed services
Wavelengths engineered and monitored end to end, or a Managed Fibre Network (MFN) we run on your behalf.
Dark fibre
Dark fibre, if you would rather build and manage your own layer on top.
Zetnet case study
How a fast-growing service provider scaled IP transit and Layer 2 connectivity across Europe on our transport network.
Problems we solve
What carriers bring to us.
Our upstream is a reseller, not an owner
One contract and one escalation path, from your handoff to ours.
We need diverse capacity into a new region fast
We provision on our own timeline, so there's nobody upstream to wait for.
We need flexible commercial terms
IRU, lease, managed services or dark fibre, whichever model fits how you buy.
Frequently asked questions
How much of the transatlantic route does EXA Infrastructure own?
Of the nine transatlantic systems, four are wholly owned and the rest are held in consortium or on long-term IRU. Either way you are buying from the operator that runs the route, not from a reseller sitting on top of one.
What commercial models are available?
Long-term IRUs if you want to hold the capacity outright, flexible leases without a long commitment, fully managed wavelengths, a Managed Fibre Network we run on your behalf, or dark fibre if you would rather run your own equipment. The model is yours to pick; the route is the same either way.
What capacity is available now?
It varies by route and changes as we build, so we would rather tell you the current position than publish a number that ages. Give us the endpoints and we will come back with what is available and when.
How diverse are the paths?
Terrestrial and subsea run as one meshed network, so there are multiple alternative paths between any two points rather than a single route with a backup behind it. Corridor thinking plans those paths against the events that actually take networks out, and nine diverse transatlantic systems sit behind the ocean crossing. Because the mesh is ours to design, diversity is engineered rather than assembled from other people's paths.
How fast can capacity be provisioned?
Fast where we are already on-net at both ends, which across 500+ DWDM PoPs covers most of what carriers ask for. Where we are not, we build, and we will give you the timeline before you commit to anything.
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