New service extends Lyntia’s wholesale portfolio amid continued investment and European expansion
Spanish wholesale operator Lyntia has launched DC Connect, a new data centre interconnection service linking more than 100 facilities across Spain and Portugal. The move improves the operator’s position as a neutral infrastructure provider in Southern Europe, giving enterprises and service providers a way to connect to multiple digital ecosystems through a single physical link.
DC Connect offers private and secure interconnection between data centres, the internet, cloud providers and security or AI service platforms. It is designed to deliver low-latency connectivity, with bandwidth options from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps and MEF 3.0-certified Ethernet services. Lyntia said the platform combines its fibre backbone, covering 70% of public data centres on the Iberian Peninsula, with its MPLS network of more than 350 nodes in 200 cities.
Customers can use a single “DC Port” to access multiple digital services, a setup aimed at simplifying technical management and reducing costs. The operator also offers an optional MACsec encryption layer, automated provisioning and round-the-clock bilingual support.
Lyntia product manager Mariló Quevedo said DC Connect “responds to a growing market need to access clouds, networks and key applications with speed, flexibility and security.” The operator plans to extend the service to additional public and private data centres through an ongoing investment programme.
The launch follows two other recent developments that underline Lyntia’s modernised service portfolio. In late October, the operator opened a new DWDM node in Marseille, connecting Spain, Portugal and France through a single optical platform. Marseille’s role as a landing point for 17 submarine cables makes it a major European hub for data traffic from Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. Lyntia said its Marseille node will support connections up to 400 Gbps and enable lower-latency routes between Iberia and other global regions.
Earlier in October, the telco also introduced Quantum Safe, an advanced encryption option for its Wavelength service. Using post-quantum algorithms at the physical network layer, the system is designed to resist future quantum computing attacks while maintaining ultra-low latency. The technology complements Lyntia’s existing L1 MD encryption and forms part of a roadmap exploring Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography for future deployments.
Future consolidation
Lyntia, owned by AXA Investment Managers, operates more than 56,000 kilometres of fibre across Spain and Portugal, providing dark fibre and circuit rental to operators and utilities. AXA’s interest in Spanish fibre infrastructure extends beyond Lyntia: the firm was reported in August to be in advanced talks to acquire about 30% of Fiberpass, the fibre-to-the-home joint venture between Telefónica España and Vodafone Spain, valued at around €1.5 billion. However, no agreement has yet been announced, and the process appears to have stalled as investor appetite for fibre assets cools amid higher borrowing costs and, some would argue, shifting priorities towards AI-related infrastructure.
At the same time, Vodafone Spain has pursued a separate fibre strategy through FibreCo, the newly created wholesale network formed in August by merging its fibre assets with those of MasOrange (the merged Orange España–MásMóvil group). Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has taken a 25% stake in FibreCo, while MasOrange and Vodafone hold about 58% and 17% respectively. The entity will manage a combined footprint of roughly 12 million premises, creating one of Spain’s largest wholesale fibre platforms.
For AXA, which already owns Lyntia, further involvement in Spain’s fibre sector would strengthen its position as one of the country’s most significant institutional investors in digital connectivity.
