Frankfurt is Germany's primary interconnection market and home to DE-CIX, the world's highest-traffic internet exchange. Its dense tier-1 carrier ecosystem and direct access to hyperscaler on-ramps make it the default anchor for teams delivering into Germany, Central Europe, and the wider EU user base.
Typical Workloads
- DE-CIX peering and carrier-dense interconnection
- Low-latency delivery across Germany and Central Europe
- Cloud on-ramp access for hyperscaler-adjacent workloads
London is the United Kingdom's primary interconnection market and the metro where UK trans-Atlantic capacity is backhauled and interconnected. Home to LINX and a dense tier-1 carrier ecosystem, it is the usual anchor for teams serving British users and for estates that run on both sides of the Atlantic.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across the UK and Ireland
- LINX peering and carrier-dense London interconnection
- Trans-Atlantic transit handoff toward North America
Amsterdam is the Netherlands' interconnection market and the home of AMS-IX, one of Europe's three largest exchanges. That mix of open peering, carrier-neutral campus density, and EU data residency makes it a common companion anchor for teams already running in Frankfurt or London.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across the Benelux and the Nordics
- AMS-IX peering and open interconnection across Europe
- Subsea-backed transit between Northern Europe and the Atlantic
Paris is France's primary interconnection market and one of the metros carrying the bulk of Western European traffic, with dense carrier presence and short paths into neighbouring markets. Marseille adds a Mediterranean subsea landing position, which makes France useful for teams serving Europe and routes beyond.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across France and Western Europe
- Mediterranean subsea routing towards Africa and Asia
- Fintech and enterprise workloads under EU data residency
Every Zenlayer site in Spain sits in Madrid, where the Iberian carrier backbones meet the terrestrial handover for trans-Atlantic subsea systems. EU jurisdiction, direct reach into Spanish and Portuguese audiences, and a westward path that skips the detour through Northern Europe make it the working anchor for teams covering Iberia and Latin America.
Typical Workloads
- Spanish-language content and CDN delivery
- Trans-Atlantic subsea-backed routing to Latin America
- Fintech and e-commerce for Iberian audiences
Istanbul is Turkey's interconnection anchor, the metro where domestic networks meet the terrestrial routes running east into the Caucasus and Central Asia. Paired with more than 80 million internet users, that position makes it the default deployment for teams serving Turkey or routing beyond the European edge.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery to Turkish and regional audiences
- Transit between Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia
- Fintech and e-commerce delivery with local data handling
Zenlayer's Swedish footprint is three sites in the capital region, offering bare metal, edge colocation, and IP transit in the market that carries most Nordic and Baltic interconnection. Teams use it to hold both latency and data residency inside the region while the rest of a European estate runs further south.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery to Nordic and Baltic users
- Single-tenant compute for data that must stay in the EU
- Customer-owned racks beside managed bandwidth in one metro
Warsaw is Poland's primary interconnection market and the commercial hub of the largest digital economy in Central and Eastern Europe. Zenlayer's colocation space there, certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, suits teams that want EU data residency and their own hardware close to Polish users.
Typical Workloads
- Colocation for Polish and Central European audiences
- Carrier-neutral interconnection at Warsaw exchanges
- Regional expansion east of the FLAP-D data center core
Milan is Italy's primary interconnection market and commercial capital, where northbound fibre meets Mediterranean capacity. A single data center there carries bare metal cloud, colocation, and IP transit, giving teams an EU-resident anchor for delivery to Italy's 50M plus internet users.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery to audiences across Italy
- Milan interconnection for domestic Italian traffic
- Mediterranean routing complement to Marseille
Dublin is Ireland's primary interconnection market and the point where trans-Atlantic subsea systems come ashore, alongside a dense hyperscaler cloud presence. That pairing of EU residency with a direct westbound path makes it a useful anchor when a single platform has to serve European regulators and North American users.
Typical Workloads
- Trans-Atlantic subsea-backed transit to North America
- Certified colocation for EU-resident workloads
- Enterprise SaaS and fintech serving Irish and UK users
Lisbon is Portugal's primary interconnection market and the Atlantic landing point where subsea systems bound for Brazil, the United States, and North Africa come ashore. That position and EU data residency make it a useful western anchor for teams needing Atlantic route diversity beside a Madrid deployment.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across Portugal and western Iberia
- Subsea-backed routing between Iberia and the Americas
- Iberian redundancy paired with Madrid deployments
Zurich is Switzerland's interconnection market and the base of a banking and pharmaceutical sector with strict data handling rules, but Zenlayer runs no data centers in the country. Swiss users are reached from Germany, France, and Italy, covering delivery and transit while residency-bound data stays with a Swiss host.
Typical Workloads
- Regulated enterprise SaaS and financial services delivery
- Data sovereignty planning for Swiss regulated workloads
- Zurich audience delivery from Frankfurt and Paris edges
Prague is the Czech Republic's primary interconnection market and the network stop on the corridor between Frankfurt and Warsaw. Zenlayer runs bare metal and IP transit from one certified facility there, suiting teams that want in-country presence for domestic users and pair it with Frankfurt for the full product portfolio.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery to Czech and Slovak audiences
- In-country bare metal for EU data residency
- Enterprise SaaS and fintech delivery in Central Europe
Budapest holds Hungary's interconnection weight, gathering the domestic ISP base at BIX and sitting on the corridor between Western Europe and the Balkans. That position suits teams needing EU residency and short paths into Central and Southeastern Europe more than raw capacity, which usually stays further west.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across Hungary and the Carpathian Basin
- Interconnection between Western and Southeast Europe
- Enterprise platforms serving Central European users
Bucharest is Romania's primary interconnection market, where the domestic exchange points RONIX and InterLAN sit alongside the national carrier backbones. Zenlayer runs bare metal and IP transit there under EU data rules, which suits teams delivering to Romanian, Moldovan, and Balkan audiences from inside the region.
Typical Workloads
- Low-latency delivery across Romania and the Balkans
- Enterprise SaaS workloads with in-country data handling
- Regional peering bridge toward Turkey and the Black Sea
Athens is Greece's interconnection market and the landing area for Mediterranean subsea systems reaching North Africa, the Levant, and the routes east. That mix of local peering and subsea diversity makes it a southern anchor for teams serving Greek audiences and routing between Europe and the east Mediterranean.
Typical Workloads
- Content delivery for Greek and Balkan audiences
- East Mediterranean subsea routing and cable diversity
- Southeast Europe to North Africa traffic bridging
Helsinki is Finland's primary interconnection market and the point where Zenlayer's European backbone reaches the country, over Baltic Sea cable routes and the overland Nordic corridor. Its EU regulatory footing and low-carbon power suit teams that need a Finnish network leg alongside compute in a larger metro.
Typical Workloads
- Cloud WAN connectivity across Finland and the Baltics
- Regional peering complement to Stockholm and Frankfurt
- Energy-efficient hosting for Northern European enterprise workloads
Belgrade is Zenlayer's only location in Serbia and the point where the country's carriers, hosting demand, and international routes converge. Bare metal and IP transit are sold there, which covers platforms that need Serbian and Western Balkan users answered from inside the region rather than from a hub in another country.
Typical Workloads
- In-country compute for platforms serving the Western Balkans
- IP transit originated in Belgrade instead of Central Europe
- Serbian data residency outside the EU under GDPR-aligned law
Zagreb holds Croatia's carrier interconnection and sits on the terrestrial routes between Central Europe and the Adriatic. One Zenlayer data center there carries bare metal cloud and IP transit, making it a compact EU-resident edge for teams serving Croatian and nearby regional audiences.
Typical Workloads
- Bare metal for Croatian and Adriatic audiences
- IP transit taken at Croatia's interconnection point
- EU data residency for regional platforms
Kazakhstan is Central Asia's largest economy and the overland corridor between China and Europe, though Zenlayer runs no data centers in the country today. Coverage for Almaty and Astana is built on the backbone from European markets such as Frankfurt and Warsaw, which suits delivery and transit work while any regulated data stays with a domestic host.
Typical Workloads
- Content delivery to Kazakh audiences from regional edges
- Europe to Asia terrestrial corridor transit and routing
- Enterprise SaaS reach across Central Asia and the CIS
Uzbekistan is Central Asia's most populous market, and its traffic depends on terrestrial transit through neighbouring states rather than on any cable landing. Zenlayer runs no facilities in the country, so Uzbek workloads are served from Istanbul and Frankfurt, with domestic transit and TAS-IX peering handling the final leg.
Typical Workloads
- Central Asian delivery served from regional markets
- Regional peering and transit reach across the CIS
- Enterprise SaaS for Uzbek and Central Asian audiences