Telehouse Docklands
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Established in 1988, Telehouse Europe is a major carrier neutral colocation
Colocation centre
A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...

, ICT solutions and managed services provider based in Docklands, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. It operates seven facilities spread between London and Paris. Its sister company, Telehouse America
Telehouse America
Telehouse America is a data center services provider in the United States with carrier-neutral colocation facilities in New York and Los Angeles, as well as international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions...

, has colocation facilities in New York and Los Angeles, California. KDDI
KDDI
is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed in October 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp. It has its headquarters in the Garden Air Tower in Iidabashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo....

, Telehouse’s Japanese parent company, operates data centre facilities in America and Asia. , Telehouse has ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001
ISO/IEC 27001, part of the growing ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, is an Information Security Management System standard published in October 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission...

:2005 (Information Security) and ISO 9001:2000 (Quality Management) accreditations across all of its sites in London and Paris.

London

Operational since 1990, Telehouse North became Europe’s first purpose-built neutral colocation facility. Today, it is considered to be the main hub of the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. In response to growing demand for a Central London
Central London
Central London is the innermost part of London, England. There is no official or commonly accepted definition of its area, but its characteristics are understood to include a high density built environment, high land values, an elevated daytime population and a concentration of regionally,...

 location, Telehouse opened an additional colocation facility in 1997, Telehouse Metro, in the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...

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A second building at the Docklands site, Telehouse East, was opened in 1999 and the construction of a third building at its Dockland Head office was completed 2010.

LINX
Linx
Linx AB was a railway company which operated inter-Scandinavian passenger trains between 2001 and 2004. Established as a joint venture between the Norwegian State Railways and the Swedish state-owned SJ, Linx operated the routes from Oslo, Norway, to Stockholm, Sweden, and from Oslo via...

, Packet Exchange, LONAP
LONAP
London Network Access Point is a London-based Internet exchange point founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has almost 100 members, making it the 2nd largest IXP in the UK and around the 15th largest IXP in the World by membership...

, LIPEX and Voice Peering Fabric are present at Telehouse Docklands.

Paris

Telehouse Europe also operates three sites in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

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  • Telehouse Paris Jeûneurs. Opened in 1996 near the famous Sentier street in Paris
    Sentier (Paris Metro)
    Sentier is a station on Paris Métro Line 3 in the 2nd arrondissement. It opened on 20 November 1904 as part of the first section of the line between Père Lachaise and Villiers, which opened a month earlier. The station is named after a path leading to the city's fortifications, now called the Rue...

    .
  • Telehouse Paris Voltaire which opened in 1998.
  • Telehouse Magny-Les-Hameaux (Yvelines département). Originally a national military defence location, the site was converted into a data centre in 2009 and now provides 15,000 square meters of colocation space.

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