MONTREAL — Canadian cloud and data centre services provider eStruxture has partnered with China Mobile International (CMI) to provide the Hong Kong-based company with its first data centre presence in Montreal, the companies announced Wednesday.
A wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile, CMI offers international telecom services and solutions to enterprises, carriers and mobile users. CMI has a Canadian office in Markham, Ont.
Through the partnership, CMI will offer network access at eStruxture’s MTL-1 facility in Montreal. eStruxture customers can now enjoy high-speed connectivity to CMI’s extensive global infrastructure for mobile communications and cloud services, says the news release. CMI has been growing its global network in response to the increased demand for connectivity of multinational companies in Asia Pacific and North America in a new era of digital globalization, the release says.
“eStruxture is now an integral part of our expanding global network and we are convinced that our ecosystem will scale seamlessly within their facility, as we offer our premium services to a growing number of businesses,” said Kai Wang, managing director of CMI, in the release.
With this partnership, eStruxture adds an additional network provider to its list of more than 50 partners across Canada. Some of the providers who have partnered with eStruxture include Amazon Web Services, Cogeco, Rogers, Videotron and network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider Megaport. eStruxture offers colocation, private cloud, managed services, bandwidth, and security and support services to customers of all sizes, including carriers, cloud providers, media, content, financial services and enterprise customers.
