Telehouse celebrates 35 years of global data centre innovation

Global colocation provider, Telehouse, a brand of KDDI, a Japanese telecommunications leader, today celebrates 35 years of providing cutting-edge, customer-focused data centre services in an era of unprecedented digital transformation.

From the opening of the first Telehouse data centre in New York, USA, in 1989, quickly followed by the launch of Telehouse North in London Docklands, Telehouse has continuously evolved to serve the data and connectivity needs of the world’s most dynamic businesses.

Telehouse now has a network of more than 45 connectivity data centres in over 10 countries including its new Telehouse Canada data centres, which officially launched in June this year. This reflects Telehouse’s ongoing global expansion, with new data centres across key regions including Thailand and Canada, further solidifying the company’s presence in Asia and North America.

“Telehouse has been at the forefront of data centre evolution over the last 35 years,” said Kenkichi Honda, Telehouse. “From providing data storage needs for our customers when the internet was only just beginning, we have become a global business providing unique, sustainable, purpose-built data centres that are some of the most highly-connected in the world.

“At a time of amazing digital transformation, our commitment to putting the customer first remains unchanged. Every connection matters. This customer-first approach will continue as we innovate to meet the connectivity, infrastructure and sustainability requirements of businesses in the age of AI and machine learning.”

The Telehouse ecosystem comprises more than 1,000 connectivity partners including leading global internet exchanges and tier-1 carriers, major mobile, content delivery and cloud providers.

Telehouse data centres are home to some of the leading internet exchanges in the world. In North America, Telehouse data centres are home to the NYIIX Peering Exchange and exchange switching point of the Toronto Internet Exchange (TorIX). In Europe, the Telehouse London Docklands data centre campus is home to the London Internet Exchange (LINX) and the France Internet Exchange (France-IX) is

located in the Telehouse Paris data centres. Finally the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX), Asia’s largest internet exchanges is located in the Telehouse Hong Kong data centre and Japan Internet Exchange (JPIX), the first commercial Internet Exchange to be launched in Japan, is located in Telehouse Otemachi (Tokyo) and Osaka data centre.

All members of the Telehouse ecosystem collaborate to provide services to more than 3,000 enterprise customers in many sectors including major financial services organisations.

Telehouse expanded its data centre network across the Americas, Asia and Europe throughout the 1990s and 2000s with the development of the internet, SaaS and mass adoption of cloud services.

It is now supporting the next wave of transformation – AI and machine learning including the rapidly-developing applications in autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing and smart cities. From the United States, Germany, France and the UK to Japan, Thailand, Singapore and the Greater China region, the Telehouse family of data centres is strategically placed around the world to offer businesses secure and flexible colocation and connectivity options and unsurpassed 99.9% uptime.

Telehouse provides businesses with access and direct connections to major cloud service providers. This bypasses the public internet, providing more secure, reliable and faster connections to cloud resources. This capability has major advantages for businesses with significant cloud computing needs, reducing the risk of downtime and improving the performance of cloud-based applications and data storage solutions.

Telehouse timeline:

· 1989 – Our first data centre Telehouse Teleport opens in New York

· 1990 – Telehouse North, Europe’s first purpose-built colocation data centre opens in London

· 1991 – Osaka Chuo data centre opens in Japan

· 1993 – Otemachi data centre opens in Japan

· 1994 – Telehouse North becomes the home of the London Internet Exchange

. 1996 – Telehouse Jeûneurs opens. Telehouse America establishes the New York International Internet Exchange

· 1998 – Telehouse Los Angeles opens

· 1999 – Telehouse East in London and Telehouse Voltaire in Paris open

· 2008 – Telehouse Singapore and Telehouse Beijing BEZ open

· 2009 – Telehouse Magny-Les-Hameaux opens in Paris

· 2010 – Telehouse West in London, Telehouse Hanoi and Telehouse Shanghai Zhangjiang open

· 2011 – Telehouse Chelsea in New York, Telehouse Hong Kong and Telehouse Istanbul open

· 2012 – Telehouse Shanghai Jinqiao and Telehouse Beijing BDA open

· 2013 – Telehouse opens its second site for Telehouse Shanghai and Telehouse Beijing

· 2015 – Telehouse Osaka 2 opens in Japan

· 2016 – Telehouse North Two in London and Telehouse Tama3 open in Tokyo

· 2020 – Telehouse Tama5 opens in Tokyo

· 2022 – Telehouse South opens in London

· 2023 – Telehouse opens its first data centre in Thailand

· 2024 – Telehouse opens 3 data centres in Canada