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 information facilities.

A lot as this occasion is a converging level for community and information middle consultants, the broader Mediterranean area the place our lovely 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 achieved. So what are Marseille’s particular strengths as a connectivity hub? Because of our Market Connectivity Rating—an interactive device in our Information Middle Analysis Service—now we have granular information on the Marseille market.

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

The place the info comes from: Market Connectivity Rating

First: A fast be aware on how the Market Connectivity Rating device works. We created this device to resolve particular issues for our clients, serving to to reply questions like:

• The place ought to we spend money on cloud infrastructure or information middle infrastructure?
• The place is there out there energy to take action?
• The place is the following large hub going to be?

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

• Information middle energy,
• Variety of ASNs peering domestically,
• Cloud onramps, and extra.

And people information 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 could be attributed to a couple components: 

• Marseille is amongst a dozen cities on this planet with the best focus of subsea cable landings.
• The gravitational pull of subsea improvement continues for Marseille with at the very least 5 new cables planning to land, together with Africa-1, SeaMeWe-6, India-Europe Xpress (IEX), and extra.
• Marseille is one among only a few international markets with greater than 100 Tbps of worldwide web capability: an enormous quantity of web capability that connects straight throughout worldwide borders to the town. By this metric, Marseille is the sixth largest international web hubbing level behind the FLAPs and Singapore.
• Worldwide cities straight related: intently associated to the bw metric, MRS ranks fifth globally (straight behind the FLAPs and forward of Singapore) for variety of worldwide cities straight 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. Information middle and peering infrastructure has allowed the great site visitors shifting by means of Marseille to interconnect domestically.

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
• Laws 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
• Information facilities: 3.6

Subscribers to TeleGeography’s Information Middle Analysis Service can learn class definitions, the sources of these definitions, and our information methodology when utilizing the interactive Market Connectivity Rating device.

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