Sofia Connect (AS47872) becomes Netnod Reach Partner

Sofia Connect (AS47872) has joined the Netnod Reach partner program to provide remote peering in Sweden to its many corporate and carrier customers from around the globe. As an official Netnod Reach partner, Sofia Connect can engage clients at any point of presence on its network and resell peering ports to Sweden’s leading Internet Exchange.

“We are pleased to join Netnod which will grant us and our customers access to the large peering community in Stockholm and add resilience to our network. Netnod with its dual network architecture ensures highest availability and outstanding performance – benefits that we as a Reach Partner can now pass on to our customers in the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East. Besides providing access to the Nordics Netnod also serves as an important peering platform for traffic bound for Russia”, says Yuliy Nushev, CEO of Sofia Connect.

"We are excited and proud to partner up with Sofia Connect. This partnership will help bring efficient connections across Europe and the Middle East. Sofia Connect is making great efforts in creating high-quality services and creating an extensive network so we're confident that the partnership will be a success. Netnod Reach is an easy, fast and cost-effective way to peer in Stockholm without the overhead of a full IXP commitment allowing you to test the waters with the visibility and technical benefits of a full peering customer," says Stefan Lindeberg, Netnod CEO

About Sofia Connect
Sofia Connect is a leading wholesale carrier from Bulgaria specialized in providing comprehensive connectivity solutions to carriers, ISPs and content providers of all sizes throughout the Balkans, the Caucasus and increasingly the Middle East. Through the Caucasus Cable System, a state-of-the-art submarine cable across the Black Sea, Sofia Connect provides the fastest and safest route from the Caucasus and the northern Middle East to Europe. An increasing number of carriers in the region, including from Georgia, Armenia and Iraq count on Sofia Connect's services.

Contact

Christian von der Ropp, Business Development Director, Sofia Connect

Email: info@sofia-connect.net

Phone: +359 242 00300

Website: www.sofia-connect.net

About Netnod
Netnod is a not-for-profit, neutral and independent Internet infrastructure organisation, based in Sweden and owned by the TU foundation. Netnod provides DNS anycast and unicast slave services to TLDs worldwide through its highly respected and robust DNSNODE product. Netnod is also the proud operator of i.root-servers.net, one of the thirteen logical DNS root name servers in the world – a critical part of the Internet underlying infrastructure. This service is provided as a public service to the Internet community at-large, as part of Netnod’s goal to work for the “Good of the Internet”. Finally, Netnod operates six exchanges in five different cities in Sweden where Internet operators exchange traffic. The Netnod IX has among the highest amount of traffic per peer in Europe and is fully IPv6 enabled.

Contact

Stefan Lindeberg, CEO, Netnod

Email: stefanl@netnod.se

Phone: +46 8 5628600