Super Highway Amsterdam to Frankfurt

Amsterdam to Frankfurt

Continuing our Super Highway development further into Europe, we have enhanced our long-haul network between Amsterdam and Frankfurt to deliver a new Super Highway. 

We’ve completely upgraded and optimised an existing route to deliver new fibre that increases capacity, reduced the number of ILA sites to improve performance and efficiency, and built new route diversity for our customers to avoid existing high-traffic areas in one of the busiest connectivity regions in Europe.

  • A shorter long-haul fibre route from Amsterdam to Frankfurt.

  • Redesigned with optimised and wider spacing between ILAs, reducing the number required from seven to five.

  • Fewer ILA sites streamline construction resources and power required in service, delivering a more efficient end-to-end system.

  • All ILA sites are newly built with highly efficient air conditioning, which uses less power for cooling, reducing the system’s carbon impact.

  • The optimised long haul approach to the Amsterdam metro network in the south east avoids route congestion bound for Hamburg.

  • Connected to our Düsseldorf metro at both the north and south, offering excellent route flexibility around the metro.

  • Diversity has been enhanced to the euNetworks Frankfurt metro network, with a direct route into Sossenheim and direct approach to Hattersheim, providing space for a direct Brussels to Frankfurt route without crossovers. 

  • Direct connectivity to any of the 138+ data centres in euNetworks’ metro networks in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Frankfurt along this Super Highway system, as well as seamlessly connecting to the other 431+ connected data centres across Europe.

Critical Diversity

For our customers, diversity is critical. Amsterdam and Frankfurt are part of the FLAP connectivity region (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, and Paris), where data transfer and internet traffic remain the highest in Europe. Routes between these locations traditionally follow standard pathways, meaning bottlenecks, congestion, and shared approaches into and out of cities.

Super Highways are designed to avoid common capacity bottlenecks and known regional congestion. They offer new approaches to cities and metro networks whilst remaining the most direct route possible.

Our Super Highway between Amsterdam and Frankfurt is uniquely routed to avoid congestion on approach to each city. It also offers two geographically diverse approaches to Frankfurt and connects to our Düsseldorf metro at north and south points.

This delivers new, alternative route diversity for businesses between Amsterdam and Frankfurt, allowing them to improve the resilience of their networks

Super Highway Insights

An Innovative Subsea Cable Burial that Delivers Unique Benefits

Our subsea cable Scylla was laid using micro-routing – following sand wave contours on the sea bed to provide a deeper, more secure burial that naturally increases over time.

A Network that Supports Pioneering Research for the Future of Communication

Our Super Highway subsea cable Rockabill was used as the location for cutting-edge quantum communication research across the Irish Sea.

New, Unique Routes Connecting Key European Cities

We design uniqueness and diversity into our Super Highways, addressing the demand for new fibre connectivity between cities and data centres across Europe.

Re-imagining Long Haul Network Design

Our Super Highways aren’t constrained by the limitations of legacy fibre types. This gives us the ability to re-think how a long haul route is best designed.