Alticom
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| Company type | telecommunication infrastructure |
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| Industry | telecommunication services |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | TDF Group |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Netherlands |
Key people | Ed Clarke, director Infracapital |
| Products | transmission masts Data centre services |
| Owner | Infracapital |
| Parent | Infracapital (since June 2011) |
| Website | www.alticom.nl |
| Footnotes / references in June 2011 Alticom was acquired from TDG Holding[1] | |
Alticom bv is a Dutch company that owns 30 transmission masts in the Netherlands. It operates as a market leading core communications infrastructure provider in the Netherlands. Alticom offers space on these masts for antennas as well as transmission equipment to operators of telecommunication networks and room within the constructions for the associated equipment and as colocation/data center/backhaul/connectivity.[2]
Alticom owns 30 masts and towers all over the Netherlands. Its primary activity consists on colocation services for all telecommunication and content delivery networks in the Netherlands. It can offer full coverage of the country[3]
Alticom owns the concrete base of the large towers such as the Gerbrandy Tower and Zendstation Smilde while the steel mast on top of these towers is owned by a company named NOVEC, which is a subsidiary of TenneT. The ground on which these towers are built are owned by KPN, the company that sold the towers and masts to Alticom and Novec in 2007. Only the first 3 meters around the base of these structures are owned by Alticom[4]
Datacenters
Since 2009 space in the towers is offered as colocation centers. Offering includes: housing of servers infrastructure, energy provisioning, emergency power, connectivity, etc. The company offers these spaces as data centers and offers this to IT companies as regional data center facilities. All facilities are on-site to guarantee permanent operation (such as emergency power-generators, redundant communication links etc.).[5]
Data and colocation centers such as those offered by the company are bound to play a key role in addressing latency, which will become a critical issue for the next 5G deployment. 5G pushes for a network change. Processing and storage capacity will be located as close as possible to the user through data centers for edge computing. That means moving broadband content delivery, streaming video, etc. closer to the edge of the network. There will be edge data centers and connected to the latter micro data centers.