Neutral Networks began the operation of its new fiber optic network, called Link, with which it seeks to meet the demand for connectivity in the Data Centers located in Querétaro. The construction of this new fiber optic network will require an investment of up to 350 million pesos.
Gabriel Navarro, general director of the Monterrey company, explained that there is currently a high demand for connectivity for Data Centers, which are the support for storing the information that Internet users generate on e-commerce platforms, social networks, Google searches or in the cloud.
The new Link network, which is still under construction to expand its coverage and will be completed by the summer of 2023, was developed with an initial investment of 100 million pesos. It consists of six ducts with the capacity to house more than 1,700 fiber strands.
The new Neutral Networks network will add to the 3,400 kilometers of fiber optics that it already has deployed.
“Querétaro is consolidating itself as the regional data center hub. There are big industry players already operating there and huge investments in data centers have been announced in the last year by the world’s leading hyperscalers. The demand for data that exists is going to multiply over the years, that is why we should think about expanding the infrastructure in the area with different routes”, said the company manager.
According to the consulting firm Aritzon, it is estimated that the Data Center market in Mexico will have investments of 905 million dollars between this year and 2026.
Sharing infrastructure, an option for operators
Infrastructure sharing is a scheme that is being explored in Latin America, especially Brazil, to bridge the digital gap and achieve faster and more efficient construction of a good infrastructure.
Gabriel Navarro assured that sharing the infrastructure is an alternative that can work for Mexico to avoid network redundancy and investment by telecommunications operators such as Telcel and AT&T.
“It is a paradigm shift, at the end of the day, it is difficult for an operator to make an investment shared with the competition that may have a certain conflict of interest and this means that these companies continue to make these investments in some way independent and redundant on the same squares or areas of interest”, he pointed out.
Telefónica is one of the telecommunications companies that has begun to apply the infrastructure sharing model to provide services and heal its finances due to the cost that the spectrum represented for its operation.
