ielo and MIX partner to strengthen France–Italy connectivity
Paris, 14 October 2026 – ielo, a French fibre infrastructure operator, and Megaport, a global automated infrastructure platform, have announced a partnership focused on network infrastructure and connectivity. Megaport is now using ielo’s infrastructure to expand its backbone in France. The partnership also opens up opportunities for the two companies to explore further collaboration, bringing together their respective expertise in connectivity across France and international markets.
Paris, July 16th 2026 –Through this partnership, ielo enables French and European operators to access MIX without requiring a local presence. MIX, notably established on the Via Caldera campus in Milan, is Italy’s leading interconnection hub.
This interconnection promotes more direct routes between France and Italy by relying on a local exchange point rather than Northern European hubs. It therefore reduces the number of intermediaries between networks and improves control over traffic routing paths.
For MIX, the arrival of French operators broadens the diversity of networks connected to the platform and contributes to more direct local traffic exchanges.
ielo’s point of presence in Milan relies on activated capacity links between Lyon, Nice and Milan. These connections provide capacity to Milan and ensure interconnection with the networks present on MIX.
« Beyond simply establishing a presence in Italy, our goal is to concretely facilitate access for European operators to the MIX ecosystem and create more direct interconnections between France and Italy, without depending on Northern European hubs », explains Hélios de Creisquer, Chief Technology Officer at ielo.
« We are pleased to welcome ielo into the MIX ecosystem as a peering partner. This collaboration enables international ISPs and carriers to reach Italian networks without establishing a dedicated local presence, while creating a more direct interconnection axis between France and Italy. As a neutral and independent exchange, MIX benefits from the greater network diversity and more efficient local traffic routing that partnerships like this bring. », affirms Mattia Flena, Commercial Director at MIX.
More broadly, this initiative is part of the development of ielo’s remote peering services across Europe’s leading Internet Exchange Points, enabling ielo partners to quickly access new ecosystems without requiring a local point of presence, while optimising deployment timelines and costs.
ielo continues to strengthen its network infrastructure in close alignment with the needs of telecom operators, datacenters and institutional stakeholders.
About MIX
MIX – Milan Internet Exchange, founded in 2000 and headquartered at the Caldera campus in Milan, MIX is Italy’s leading Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and one of the largest in Europe by traffic volume, with daily peaks exceeding 3.7 Tbps.
MIX provides interconnection services to over 460 Italian and international networks (AS), delivering high-performance, scalable and secure connectivity. It is one of the few IXPs in Europe to operate its own data centres, ensuring full control over infrastructure and service quality.
MIX was the first Italian IXP to achieve ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for information security management and also holds Open-IX OIX-1 certification, attesting to the robustness and reliability of its infrastructure.
MIX operates four edge IXP nodes in Italy – in Palermo, Bologna, Rome and Caserta – and one in Greece, in Thessaloniki.