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With new deal, Ascenty’ ecosystem offers data transmission between São Paulo and Madrid starting at 99 milliseconds, 60% faster than market average

Ascenty, the leading colocation company in Latin America, with 34 data centers in operation and/or under construction in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, announces a new interconnection partnership in its ecosystem. Along with NUV, a company that specializes in global connectivity services, and with the NetIX, Peer-1, and TupIX products, the company plans to expand the reach and quality of its connectivity in all regions of the globe.

The addition of NUV products to the Ascenty ecosystem will provide customers of both companies with global connectivity options with best-in-class latency, starting at 99 milliseconds for data transmission between Sao Paulo and Europe. Average latency for this route is estimated to be 220 milliseconds.

“With these products, we guarantee the lowest latency for data exchanges between the Americas and Europe. NetIX connects more than 30 exchange points (PTTs) in the world, between Brazil, the United States and Europe; we also connect all of Latin America in a single PTT through TupiX, based in large urban centers; and Peer-1 will allow us to take our customers to the most important peering exchanges around the world, aiming for the best experience. That way we can spread the network without losing the quality of our connectivity,” explained Fabricio Costa, CEO of NUV. “We are looking for partners who will help each other. This is the case with Ascenty, a company with a global footprint and aligned with our aspirations to provide excellent personalized service,” he added.

After three months of being rolled out from the Ascenty data center campus in São Paulo, the partnership will extend in the coming months to the Vinhedo, Campinas, and Fortaleza sites. Next, the goal is to expand the network to Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Chile, and Querétaro, Mexico, and, finally, in Bogotá, Colombia, once the data center goes live.

“This partnership illustrates the quality of the services we provide to our customers and the focus we have on increasing interconnection possibilities for the Latam market. Content is everywhere, but the big difference is in how this content is transmitted. In this context, NUV and its entire range of platforms is strategic for the possibility of unlimited expansion of connectivity, without loss of quality,” said João Walter, Executive Manager of Products, Solutions and Edge Strategy at Ascenty.

With two data centers in operation and one under construction in Querétaro, Ascenty is in talks with the Mexican government to explore expanding its technology and connectivity business in the country

Directors of Ascenty, a leader in the Latin American data center market, met last month, with authorities at the Government Palace of the State of Querétaro, Mexico, to discuss expanding the company’s business in the country.

With two data centers in operation and a third under construction in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, Ascenty discussed with Mexican representatives opportunities to expand its telecommunications infrastructure and power supply solutions, among other issues pertaining to the technology and connectivity business.

The company currently operates the following data centers in Mexico: Mexico 1, a 20,000 sq. mt. site with 21 MW in total power; Mexico 2, spanning 24,000 sq. mt. with 31 MW in power capacity; and Mexico 3, scheduled to go live in the first quarter of 2025, with a site area of 20,000 sq. mt. and 21 MW in power. In all, the company has already invested over BRL 1 billion [USD 200 million] in Mexico.

“Mexico and Brazil are the largest economies in Latin America and together account for more than 50% of regional GDP, as well as being among the 20 largest economies in the world. Therefore, having our world-class data center services in the country is key in securing our regional leadership,” explains Gustavo Sousa, Ascenty’s CFO.

In addition to Sousa, the meeting was attended by Mauricio Kuri, governor of Querétaro; Marco Del Prete, Querétaro’s secretary of sustainable development; Mauricio Reys, engineer from Querétaro’s Electrical Energy Agency (AEEQ); Felipe Caballero, vice president of Projects, Engineering and Construction at Ascenty; Arturo Bravo, director of Ascenty’s Data Centers in Mexico; and Adriana Cerecedo, founding partner of GLA-Gestion Legal y Ambiental.

Latin America’s largest data center company provides wider reach and improved connectivity for content on Globo’s streaming platform

Ascenty, the leader in colocation in Latin America, with 34 data centers in operation and/or under construction in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, has signed an interconnection partnership with Globo to distribute digital content, such as the Globoplay streaming platform.

The connection will take place through a new point of presence for Globo at the São Paulo Campus and integration with Ascenty’s peering platform, the Ascenty Internet Connectivity Exchange (AICX). Thus, all content production will be integrated into a carrier-neutral, low-latency connectivity ecosystem with world-class infrastructure. This digital environment relies on the presence of leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and operators, as well as direct partnerships with Internet exchange companies, expanding the reach for Globo’s streaming platform.

“In just a few months with Globo in our ecosystem, we have already seen a significant increase in traffic within the AICX solution, as well as new requests for direct connection to the partner, which boosts interconnection opportunities and demonstrates the provision of scalability for our partners and customers,” said João Walter, Executive Manager of Products, Solutions and Edge Strategy at Ascenty.

“Looking to improve the quality and speed in the delivery of Globoplay and other Globo digital products, we are increasing the options for internet carriers and providers to interconnect with us. With the partnership with Ascenty, we have new direct interconnection options at the São Paulo Campus, through the AICX peering platform,” says Claudiney Soares, Globo’s Peering Coordinator.

Through its own 5,000 km fiber-optic network spread across Brazil, Ascenty’s data centers are interconnected to the country’s three submarine cable stations in Praia Grande, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. Thus, in addition to excellent connectivity in Latin America, Ascenty’s digital ecosystem also enables low-latency data exchanges with countries in North America, Africa, and Europe.

The partnership resulted in 13% faster processing times for financial operations

Ascenty, the Latin American colocation leader, with 34 data centers across Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, has sealed a partnership to improve the processing of financial transactions with WNB Comnect, a technological solutions company in network infrastructure for electronic transactions.

After a year of planning and more than R$2 million in investments, the joint venture led to a 70% increase in the capacity of WNB Comnect’s payment method transactions.

With Ascenty’s data center in Vinhedo – the largest in Latin America – added to its infrastructure, WNB achieved 13% faster processing times for data transport compared with the company’s historical average. The main reason for this performance improvement is due to the connectivity ecosystem connected to the world’s leading cloud providers.

“Ascenty offers services at a quality level that we consider essential for our projects. Their strengths are their connectivity, international security certifications, commitment to deadlines, and agile and personalized service,” said Ruy Rothschild de Souza, CEO of WNB Comnect. “This partnership reinforced our commitment to availability, flexibility, and security, essential values that we bring to our customers and partners,” he added.

The project was originally scheduled to be delivered by Ascenty in November 2022, to allow WNB to meet the increased flow of transactions for the holidays, the busiest time of year for the retail segment. However, Ascenty managed to complete the customer’s capacity expansion in early August, three months ahead of schedule.

WNB Comnect currently operates around 40% of in-person electronic payment transport in Brazil, accounting for almost 100% of the traffic in some segments.

“The arrival of WNB represents a significant increase in excellence in the supply of network infrastructure for data transport and electronic transactions in Ascenty’s marketplace, reinforcing our role as a developer of new business in our digital ecosystem,” said Vinícius Minetto, sales director at Ascenty.

Latin America’s largest data center company is first in the region to become a signatory to the UN Global Compact

Ascenty, a leading company in the Latin American data center market, with 34 sites located across Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, has just joined the United Nations Global Compact in Brazil. The initiative aims to mobilize the business community to adopt and promote a list of ten universally accepted principles on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. By establishing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Global Compact has also taken on the mission of engaging the private sector in this new agenda.

Ascenty thus becomes the only Latin American data center company to have committed to what is the world’s largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative. It is another groundbreaking move by the company, which has been carbon neutral since 2020; and the first to have a data center ISO 14001 certified in Brazil back in 2016, when corporate environmental management systems were still in their infancy.

“By joining the Global Compact, we commit to report our annual progress on the Ten Principles, which fosters the constant evolution of our sustainable practices,” said Fábio Trimarco, Director of Compliance and Quality at Ascenty. “This initiative is vital for us to understand what the gaps are in improving our sustainability, as well as to be involved in a community with a holistic view on the subject, which gives us the opportunity to learn about best practices in solving problems similar to ours,” he added.

As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the UN Global Compact is a call to companies worldwide to align their operations and strategies with ten universal principles on human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption.

The UN Global Compact Network Brazil was created in 2003, and today is the third largest local network in the world, with more than 1,600 members. There are more than 40 projects in the country, primarily focused on: Water and Sanitation, Food and Agriculture, Energy and Climate, Human Rights and Labor, Anti-Corruption, Engagement and Communication.

The transaction includes two instruments, an offshore Term Loan Facility and a debenture issuance on the local capital market

Ascenty, the leading colocation company in Latin America, with 34 data centers in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia, obtained funding of USD 1.025 billion over a period of 5 years in two instruments.

The first was an overseas Term Loan Facility worth USD 825 million, led by Itaú, Natixis, Scotiabank, Credit Agricole, Banco MUFG Brasil and Mizuho. In addition to these banks, 6 others joined the operation.

The second instrument was the issuance of debentures on the local market in an amount equivalent to USD 200 million, led by Bradesco. The debentures were issued in Brazilian reais and feature a swap to U.S. dollars.

These transactions extended the company’s debt period and injected cash to expand its activities in Brazil. Even with the global financial market undergoing a volatile moment, Ascenty shows that its long-term client relationships and operational consistency provide the company with differentiated fundraising conditions.

“Based on the success obtained in financing the Brazilian operations, we will now seek similar structures for the Mexican, Chilean, and Colombian markets,” comments Gustavo Sousa, Ascenty’s CFO. “This operation, unprecedented in the sector, demonstrates the market’s confidence in Ascenty, which stands out due to its portfolio of long-term clients, such as large big techs, but mainly because of its operating capacity. Despite being a young company at only 13 years old, its projects have reached a high level of maturity, with about 90% of our capacity in Brazil being fully operational,” adds Sousa.

About Ascenty
Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield company, is the largest connectivity and data center service provider in Latin America, currently managing 34 data centers in operation and/or construction in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, interconnected by 5,000 km of proprietary fiber-optic network. The company was established in 2010 and builds and operates world-class data centers serving the world’s largest cloud and technology providers, as well as other customers in the finance, retail, industrial, healthcare and service industries. To support its expansion, Ascenty relies on its shareholders – Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management company, and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company, with more than 300 sites located in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. To learn more about Ascenty, go to the website.

OCP servers developed and manufactured in Brazil, by Brazilian workers, decrease the domestic market’s reliance on imported products

Ascenty, the leading colocation company in Latin America, with 33 data centers in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, DataSafer, a company specialized in cloud storage based in Campinas, and its supplier, Datacom, a manufacturer of servers and telecommunications products based in Eldorado do Sul, have teamed up to launch a 100% Brazilian-made cloud storage structure using an OCP (Open Compute Project) server fully developed and manufactured in Brazil.

OCP is a collaborative community for creating hardware architecture concepts that efficiently support the increasing demands of cloud computing infrastructure, with reduced power consumption and lower operating and maintenance costs than traditional IT architectures. And this partnership between Ascenty, Datacom and DataSafer reduces the domestic market’s dependence on imported products by offering technology that was fully developed in Brazil, with parts and equipment manufactured in the country, by Brazilian workers.

“It took two years to design a new generation of servers for data centers that, today, operate with 30% less power consumption and 20% lower operating costs compared to previous facilities,” said Jairo Neto, Datacom’s account manager.

“Ascenty’s infrastructure was crucial for the project’s success in terms of security, high availability, connectivity and redundancies, as well as qualified and agile labor to meet the urgent demands, because we had to double the occupation of racks to make this technology viable,” added Walber Alexandre de Castro, DataSafer’s Executive Director.

Castro points out that having the products manufactured in Brazil emerged as an alternative to the delays in the delivery of servers resulting from the semiconductor shortage associated with the war between Ukraine and Russia, both among the world leaders in the production of raw materials for chips. “We managed to overcome the components crisis and meet our internal demand by planning ahead, because other companies reported having to wait a year to get this equipment from abroad, we received it in two months,” he said.

“It is a great competitive advantage for us to offer Datacom’s national OCP servers and DataSafer’s cloud storage as services available in our digital ecosystem with state-of-the-art infrastructure in power availability, high connectivity and the lowest latency in the market,” said Vinícius Minetto, Ascenty’s Sales Director.

About Ascenty

Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield company, is the largest connectivity and data center service provider in Latin America, currently managing 33 data centers in operation and/or construction in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, interconnected by 5,000 km of proprietary fiber-optic network. The company was established in 2010 and builds and operates world-class data centers serving the world’s largest cloud and technology providers, as well as other customers in the finance, retail, industrial, healthcare and service industries. To support its expansion, Ascenty relies on its shareholders – Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management company, and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company, with 290 units located in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. To learn more about Ascenty, go to the website.

Datacom website.

DataSafer website.

Latin America’s leading data center provider earned an excellent score in customer service for the fifth consecutive year as measured by Net Promoter Score (NPS) research methodology

The results of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey, conducted annually with customers of Ascenty, the leading colocation company in Latin America, reveal how excellent service is a competitive advantage in the organization’s market positioning.

For the fifth consecutive year, Ascenty earned an “excellent” score, falling in the 75-100 point range. This is a well-established corporate metric for measuring customer loyalty and satisfaction. The positive feedback from Ascenty customers through the NPS comes as an endorsement of Ascenty’s successful strategy to differentiate itself as a service provider of excellence in Colocation and Connectivity.

“We invest heavily in infrastructure, technology, and agile processes, maintaining a culture focused on flexibility, and we always have initiatives that emphasize retaining and attracting new talent, all this associated with constant training to offer excellent services with the same quality around the clock and in all Data Centers in Latin America. In addition, we are always very attentive to the needs of our customers!” said Marcos Siqueira, Vice President of Operations at Ascenty.

With 33 own data centers in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, Ascenty serves large customers that, due to the complexity of their business, require the provision of very high quality services. The main segments served by the company include major cloud and general technology service providers, the financial sector, e-commerce (retail), education, and service integrators.

Between the 2021 survey and the recently completed September 2022 survey, Ascenty announced seven new data centers – three in Brazil, two in Mexico and a second data center in Chile – adding to a recent announcement of five other sites, including the first in Colombia.

“Even with this significant expansion, the company manages to balance the well-being and safety of its employees with customer satisfaction, maintaining the quality of service confirmed by the NPS,” Siqueira concluded.

About Ascenty

Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield company, is the largest connectivity and data center service provider in Latin America, currently managing 33 data centers in operation and/or construction in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia, interconnected by 5,000 km of proprietary fiber-optic network. The company was established in 2010 and builds and operates world-class data centers serving the world’s largest cloud and technology providers, as well as other customers in the finance, retail, industrial, healthcare and service industries. To support its expansion, Ascenty relies on its shareholders – Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management company, and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company, with 290 units located in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. To learn more about Ascenty, go to the site.

Leading data center company in Latin America provides digital business environment with the greatest potential on the market

Ascenty, a leading company in the data center and connectivity industry in Latin America, with 28 units in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, participates for the first time with a booth at Futurecom 2022, which takes place October 18-20 at the São Paulo Expo, aiming to introduce its global connectivity ecosystem with the largest business potential on the market.

With 12 years of history under its belt, Ascenty offers the market the lowest latency for direct connection to the world’s leading cloud providers. The company guarantees a speed of up to 2 milliseconds for data exchange, 15% lower than the average offered in the Brazilian market.

Ascenty also has 5,000 km of proprietary fiber optic network connected to submarine cable stations in Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and Praia Grande (SP), in addition to being carrier neutral and providing direct access to numerous interconnected telecom carriers at its data centers.

Therefore, by allocating data in Ascenty’s data centers, even in hybrid form, clients gain direct access to a global client network that includes the market’s leading cloud providers, various managed business environment services, and solutions linked to cybersecurity, connectivity, and application development.

With the support of its shareholders – Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management company; and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company, with 290 units across six continents – Ascenty ratifies the worldwide standard of excellence for its digital ecosystem.

“Being part of a leading global data center service group allows us to provide low-latency connectivity, greater resilience, and ultimately superior end-to-end market availability to conduct business activities anywhere in the world”, says Marcos Siqueira, Ascenty’s VP of Operations.

Ascenty Campus in Vinhedo, the largest data center in Latin America

About Ascenty

Ascenty, a Digital Realty and Brookfield company, is the largest connectivity and data center service provider in Latin America, currently managing 28 data centers in operation and/or construction in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, interconnected by 5,000 km of proprietary fiber-optic network. The company was established in 2010 and builds and operates world-class data centers serving the world’s largest cloud and technology providers, as well as other customers in the finance, retail, industrial, healthcare and service industries. To support its expansion, Ascenty relies on its shareholders – Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, a Canadian asset management company, and Digital Realty, the world’s largest data center company, with 290 units located in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. To learn more about Ascenty, go to: https://ascenty.com

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