LU-CIX Management G.I.E.

BCE is a European leader in technical services in the areas of television, radio, production and postproduction, telecommunication and IT. With its long experience on the media market, our team provides you high quality services and will always find the solution that matches your project and budget.

With more than 200 high qualified and motivated people, BCE serves about 400 clients in various sectors, such as TV channels, radio stations, film distributors, producers, advertising companies, telecommunications operators and public services.

Established in Luxembourg, at the heart of the Greater Region, since 1999, Cegecom S.A. is your preferred alternative telecommunications provider.

Cegecom S.A. is a fully-owned subsidiary of artelis s.a., created in order to respond in an optimum manner to the growing demands of a rapidly developing market.

The majority shareholders of artelis s.a. are VSE AG (based in the Saarland, with 53.05%) and Cegedel S.A. (based in Luxembourg, with 27.50%). The financial partners are Saar LB (Saarbrücken, with 10%) and BIP Investment Partners (Luxembourg, with 9.45%).

Since its creation, Cegecom S.A. has remained true to its initial vision: to be a company which is always faster for its clients, better in terms of the solutions offered and closer to the real needs of businesses in the Greater Region. Even as technological innovations come speedily one after the other, that business philosophy remains unchanged.

Cegecom S.A. is a provider of telecommunications solutions. The company offers its services to businesses with precise requirements in relation to bandwidth and availability. By virtue of its genuine flexibility and constant reliability, Cegecom S.A. is in a position to offer individual and tailored solutions, a first-class service and an extremely attractive quality/price ratio.

The combination of all these factors enables more and more businesses in all sectors of activity – banks, insurance companies, telecoms, industries, SME and so on – to profit from the range and skills of Cegecom S.A.

At a technical level, the entire range of services offered by Cegecom S.A. relies essentially on a vast fibre optic network running for more than 1,500 kilometres through the Greater Region and Luxembourg.
Cegecom offers technical solutions based on SDH, GigE, WLL, and also on WiMAX and DWDM. As it is extremely dense, this network is completed by numerous interconnections with the national and international networks of other operators.

Gathering more than 90.000 affiliated members, accounting for 75 % of total employment and representing 80% of GDP, the Chamber of Commerce is the major professional chamber of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Established in 1841, two years after the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg gained independence, the public institution is the guardian of the interests of the companies of all sectors of business (aside from agriculture and crafts).

The operational missions of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce are:

Involvement in the legislative procedure by the preparation of opinions
Promoting the spirit of enterprise and the creation and development of businesses
Promoting foreign economic and commercial relations
Fostering a system of education and training that meets the needs of businesses
Providing services to business and the general public
Informing the public and stimulating debate as partner and independent ambassador of the market economy (think tank and proposals of policy)

More information: www.cc.lu

The Government IT Centre (Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat – CTIE) is the central player in the setting up and development of eGovernment. Its main mission is to accompany the digital transition of the Grand Duchy’s administrations, so that each of them may take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the information and communication technologies (ICTs), in an intelligent, considered and organised fashion.

Data4 is a Premier European Data Center operator based in Luxembourg to offer large Tier-3 and Tier-4 data center collocation capabilities.

Besides valuable, flexible and operational services, SecureIT offers a top notch technology environment and a full suite of infrastructure solutions to worldwide clients ranging from small and mid-size businesses to large companies. Data4 serves prominent clients like Skype, Getronics, IBM and HP to help improve their productivity, security and operating efficiency. Data4 puts the utmost emphasis on ensuring that its infrastructure and services meets its client’s compliance value requirements for control, security and integrity as set forth by the most demanding international standards.

• Unlimited protected bandwidth capacity to Frankfurt
• Guaranteed national connectivity
• Managed services on various platforms
• Services out of state of the art datacenter facilities
• Storage on demand
• Professional virtualisation platform

Datacenter Luxembourg is an independent datacenter service provider and is member of the DCL Group operating from Luxembourg. Datacenter Luxembourg is your gateway to the e-commerce hub of Europe.

Thanks to its strategic geographical location as well as financial know-how and broadcast history, the multi-lingual Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is your point of choice for starting and growing your European market expansion.

Datacenter Luxembourg is dedicated to keeping your servers and applications accessible 24/7 for your customers, employees or partners over the Internet.

Datacenter Luxembourg provides a datacenter infrastructure and operational services from distinct geographical facilities connected through a looped backbone. Datacenter Luxembourg’s services comprise among others a large and independent carrier of Datacenter, Infrastructure, International Internet & Telco Connectivity, Managed e-commerce and Housing Services.

Convinced by “The Luxembourg Advantage” several players have alrea dy chosen to establish their European operating centres in Luxembourg (e.g. Amazon, TPH, Apple iTunes, Cargolux, eBay, Microsoft, Napster, PayPal, RTL UfA, SES Astra, Skype…).

Datacenter Luxembourg offers quality bandwidth and IP through a unique international looped dark fibre backbone as well as managed services on all your server and connectivity needs.

Datacenter Luxembourg is able to provide you scalable server solutions and take care of your ad-hoc storage and server resources needs through a reliable SAN infrastructure and professional virtualisation platform.

EBRC (European Business Reliance Centre) vision is to become a Centre of Excellence in Europe in the Management of Sensitive Information.

Based in Luxembourg, EBRC offers its international clients a highly integrated, certified and internationally awarded value proposition: Trusted Services Europe composed of

• Trusted Advisory Services
• Trusted Managed Services
• Trusted Cloud Europe
• Trusted Security Europe
• Trusted Resilience Services
• Trusted Data Centre Services

EBRC is proud to promote the made in Luxembourg quality and savoir-faire and is internationally awarded. In 2015:

• Cloud Service Provider Europe 2015 (DataCloud, Monaco)
• Uptime Institute award for efficient IT “Data Center Facilities Management” EMEA 2015 (Santa Clara, USA)
• Best Cloud Transformation Methods 2015 (EuroCloud Luxembourg)
• Cloud Provider of the year 2015 (Luxembourg ICT awards)
• Best WorkPlace Luxembourg 2015 (Great Place to Work)

Driven by the search of excellence, EBRC runs its ICT Trusted Services in its own highly secured Data Centers.

EBRC is the sole service provider worldwide running 3 Tier IV Design certified Data Centers by the Uptime Institute of these 2 are Tier IV Fault-Tolerant Constructed Facility certified. The Tier IV certification is the highest level of security and availability.

Located in Luxembourg, in the heart of Europe, EBRC serves 280 international clients, from 40 different nationalities. Uncontestable leader in integrated Data Center, Cloud and Managed Services, EBRC can help you launch or boost your business in a stable international-minded country, with top GDP Performance and AAA rating.

Through EBRC, you will have access to the know-how of 180 highly qualified and certified ICT and advisory experts.

The RESTENA (“Réseau Téléinformatique de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherche”) Foundation operates the National Research and Education Network (NREN) in Luxembourg. It supports the scientific development by providing and maintaining high quality network infrastructures of 1-10 Gbit/s and associated services for the needs of education and research in Luxembourg, ranging from primary schools to the University of Luxembourg and public/private research centres.

RESTENA is an integrated part of the backbone network GéANT on an international level, a state-of-the-art network providing fast network connections, where public and private research centres can connect to more than 6000 institutions, such as other research centres, universities, scientific libraries and scientific centres, in Europe and beyond. The GéANT network does not only supply IP connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6 alike), but also offers unique services to connected institutions in form of guaranteed bandwidth, end-to-end VPN solutions, dedicated raw wavelengths across Europe, and the authentication and authorisation infrastructures eduroam and eduGAIN.

The RESTENA Foundation collaborates closely and can disseminate to all other NRENs in Europe and world-wide and has links to standardisation organisations such as the IETF.

A second mission of the RESTENA Foundation is the coordination of Internet services, where it operates the registry for the top-level domain .LU. Here it assures the top-level domain name management and actively contributes to the development of a stable and secure national Internet. RESTENA DNS Services are always at the forefront of technology, e.g. providing DNSSEC capabilities for its customers and the support of DANE TLSA records for its own services. As a member of ICANN and CENTR, DNS.LU is very well integrated in the world-wide community of DNS top-level domain operators.

Global Media Systems S.A. was founded in 1992 by Roland Roth and counts 7 employees today. The head office and technical installations are located in Luxembourg.

GMS has developed its expertise and know-how to a number of specific areas and activities. GMS is an Internet Service Provider delivering services in Hosting, Webdesign, Support, and Programming with a focus on CMS and unified messaging.

GMS supplies Hardware services through consulting, sales and the assembly and maintenance of PCs and servers, just to mention a few. The company is also largely active in the Network, Software and Telco fields. GMS operates a number of customer owned heterogeneous networks where the servers are running Linux. GMS has a global target and provides services to small to mid-sized companies, the Luxembourg government and end users.

inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation KGaA, a privately held company of the Zimmer group, was founded in April 2006 and is headquartered in Merzig/Saar, Germany.

inexio was founded on the vision that modern Ethernet and MPLS based networks will replace the legacy, SDH/SONET based networks, of the established carriers and that the future will rely on IP and Internet based services. Following this idea, inexio has built in 2007 a pan-European network as well as several datacenter facilities. A future extension, which will cover eastern France is also currently in the planning stage and the complete network will be ready for service in early May 2008. Based on this infrastructure, inexio possesses all necessary means to offer fast, highquality and inexpensive telecommunications, and network based IT services in the greater region „Luxembourg-France-Germany“.

inexio delivers individual, tailored and future-proof, national and international, network- and IT services for small and medium companies as well as for large enterprises and carriers. Well-known enterprises like Villeroy & Boch, Datacenter Luxembourg, PharmLog, PlusCard or MLP rely on inexio’s performance and expertise.

LuxConnect (www.luxconnect.lu) is a Government owned company, with a mission to promote and facilitate national and international high-end ICT investments in Luxembourg.

Objectives

Establish Luxembourg as a main hub on the European Internet map.
Provide a state of the art IT housing & servicing environment.
Enhance the competitiveness of the Luxembourg as Internet and media market place.

• Dark fiber
• Datacenter services
• National & International connectivity
• Operator Interconnect services

Luxembourg Online is an alternative telecom operator which provides internet access, fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and a variety of innovative and efficient services for both residential and corporate customers. Moreover the company offers advanced business solutions such as phone exchange, security and cloud services.

In cooperation with Eltrona Imagin, Luxembourg Online is able to provide the best triple-play offer in Luxembourg.

Founded in 1995, Luxembourg Online has become the biggest independent telecom operator in Luxembourg, using various technologies such as the copper, the fiber and the cable.

Further information under: www.internet.lu

LuxNetwork S.A., subsidiary in the NomoTech Group, is a private Luxembourgish operator. The company proposes a large range of services including access to datacentres, high-speed connectivity networks operating on a fibre-optic infrastructure, as well as numerous other managed services oriented towards professional customers and international telecom operators.

Founded in 1842, Post Luxembourg is a public service company since 1992.

With 2900 employees, the company operates postal, financial and telecommunications services and is the leading provider of postal and telecommunication services in Luxembourg.

In the field of telecommunications, Post Luxembourg runs both fixed and mobile networks providing a full range of voice and data services including satellite uplinks.

Recently, Post Luxembourg has launched its IPTV service. Post Luxembourg serves private customers as well as business clients including international banks, insurance companies and European institutions.

Post Luxembourg offers state-of-the-art technology as well as advanced and specially designed services to the business community.
Its international network, TERALINK, connects global players both to and from Luxembourg (www.teralinksolutions.com). In 2007, Post Luxembourg reached a total revenue of EUR 546.8 million.

Additional information can be found at www.post.lu

root S.A. (www.root.lu) is a leading Internet Backbone and Colocation Provider specializing in Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Direct Internet Connections, and Web Hosting.

root S.A. operates its own international network, running multiple 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to Frankfurt, London and Amsterdam. Founded in 2002 by Andy Bierlair and Marc Goederich during their studies at the University of Kaiserslautern, root S.A. now operates a redundant international network and is owner of a datacenter of more than 1500 square meters in Steinsel with room for 10.000 servers and has national points of presence at SecureIT, BCE and eBRC. Since January 2009 root S.A. is serving Akamai content (audi. de, nasa,gov, …) to most national broadband customers at a cumulated average speed of 400 MBit/s.

Bierlair, Member of LU-CIX GIE root S.A. is IPv6 ready and operational on all POPs and is actively promoting IPv6.

Key numbers

• 4.000 customers, 70% non-Luxembourg residents
• 2.300 Websites
• 6.500 Domain Names
• 1.200 servers, currently growing by 100 every month over 300 peerings on AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX
• 5.000 MBit/s peak outbound traffic volume, busiest content provider in Luxembourg

SECURITYMADEIN.LU is the main online source for cyber security in Luxembourg. Its goal is to provide news, relevant information as well as a toolbox with useful cyber security solutions for private users, organisations and the ICT community.

SECURITYMADEIN.LU is an initiative of „security made in Lëtzebuerg“ (SMILE) g.i.e. launched in February 2015 to centralise, on this online portal, all news, events, tools and other valuable information from the Luxembourg Cybersecurity Ecosystem, including the activities from its own departments:
Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg, Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Services – Luxembourg and Cybersecurity Competence Center – Luxembourg

SES Techcom Services is a 100% owned affiliate of SES, the world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of over 50 geostationary satellites, providing integrated end-to-end satellite solutions and operational services tailored to customers’ needs worldwide.

Services offered by SES Techcom Services, which is ISO 9001 certified, include the design and delivery of ground infrastructure and operational services, VSAT networks, broadband connectivity and turnkey teleport solutions. It also develops innovative solutions for e-government, e-health and e-education, as well as applications for worldwide emergency satellite communications. Further information under www.ses.com.

Founded in 1979, Telindus Luxembourg assists all businesses and organisations in their digital transformation, by providing holistic ICT & Telecommunications solutions and tailored support services. Telindus has become “Telindus powered by Tango” to offer increasingly innovative solutions to its customers and enhance their daily relations, while simplifying them.

With a team of over 500 passionate experts, Telindus’ approach encompasses Fixed and Mobile Telecommunications, ICT Infrastructures, Multi-Cloud, Fintech solutions, Cybersecurity and Managed Services. Through its Training Institute, Telindus addresses the whole scope of its customers’ challenges, allowing professionals to stay at the cutting edge of ICT best practices and latest technologies.

Telindus Luxembourg is a subsidiary of the Proximus Group, the leading provider of Telephony, Internet, TV and ICT services in Belgium. In Luxembourg, Proximus is present via its two subsidiaries, Telindus and Tango.