Market Connectivity Highlight: Marseille

We’re gearing up for the Platform World convention in Antibes on September 8-10, 2026—an occasion attended by senior leaders in digital infrastructure and knowledge facilities.

A lot as this occasion is a converging level for community and knowledge middle specialists, the broader Mediterranean area the place our stunning host metropolis sits is a converging level for communications ecosystems. Whereas cities all through the Mediterranean from Barcelona to Genoa have seen progress in community funding, no metropolis on this area compares with what Marseille has completed. So what are Marseille’s particular strengths as a connectivity hub? Due to our Market Connectivity Rating—an interactive instrument in our Knowledge Heart Analysis Service—now we have granular knowledge on the Marseille market.

Let’s have a look the Marseille market, its strengths, and the way the information breaks down.

The place the information comes from: Market Connectivity Rating

First: A fast notice on how the Market Connectivity Rating instrument works. We created this instrument to unravel particular issues for our clients, serving to to reply questions like:

• The place ought to we put money into cloud infrastructure or knowledge middle infrastructure?
• The place is there obtainable energy to take action?
• The place is the subsequent large hub going to be?

The Market Connectivity Rating tracks 45 totally different knowledge factors for 3,000 cities worldwide, together with:

• Knowledge middle energy,
• Variety of ASNs peering regionally,
• Cloud onramps, and extra.

And people knowledge factors create scores in every class for cities on a scale of 0-100.

Marseille connectivity overview

Marseilles is among the many world’s prime examples of a digital ecosystem, capitalizing on subsea convergence and geographic benefit. Marseille’s strengths as a connectivity hub might be attributed to a couple elements: 

• Marseille is amongst a dozen cities on the planet with the best focus of subsea cable landings.
• The gravitational pull of subsea growth continues for Marseille with no less than 5 new cables planning to land, together with Africa-1, SeaMeWe-6, India-Europe Xpress (IEX), and extra.
• Marseille is one in all just some world markets with greater than 100 Tbps of worldwide web capability: an enormous quantity of web capability that connects immediately throughout worldwide borders to town. By this metric, Marseille is the sixth largest world web hubbing level behind the FLAPs and Singapore.
• Worldwide cities immediately related: intently associated to the bw metric, MRS ranks fifth globally (immediately behind the FLAPs and forward of Singapore) for variety of worldwide cities immediately related through layer 3 hyperlinks

Marseille’s connectivity market strengths wouldn’t have been attainable with out intentional digital infrastructure funding. Earlier than Digital Realty and DE-CIX moved into the market, in 2013, Marseilles ranked round thirtieth amongst web capability hubs. Knowledge middle and peering infrastructure has allowed the great site visitors transferring via Marseille to interconnect regionally.

Let’s check out Marseille’s present Market Connectivity Rating and its scores throughout the classes that make up the general connectivity rating.

Total rating: 41.0

Rank: 21

Rating breakdown:

• Pricing: 97.5
• Rules and governance: 76.0
• Web exchanges: 47.3
• Lengthy-distance transport: 46.2
• Native entry: 35.9
  
• Energy: 22.4
• Geography and demographics: 21.0
• Cloud infrastructure: 19.3
• Knowledge facilities: 3.6

Subscribers to TeleGeography’s Knowledge Heart Analysis Service can learn class definitions, the sources of these definitions, and our knowledge methodology when utilizing the interactive Market Connectivity Rating instrument.

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