GTT Adds New Lisbon Point of Presence

GTT Communications Inc., a leading networking and security as a service provider for multinational organizations, has enhanced the network reach of its EnvisionCORE infrastructure with the opening of a new PoP in Lisbon, Portugal. The expanded network footprint provides GTT customers in the Southern European region alternative routes to international destinations such as Africa and Latin America.

“With our new Lisbon PoP, GTT continues to scale the reach and performance of our global network into emerging and growth markets such as Africa and Latin America in order to simply and securely connect people and machines to data and applications whenever and wherever needed,” said Tom Homer, President, Europe Division, GTT. “Our continued investment gives customers more choice for optimizing their infrastructure in Southern Europe with another option for accessing GTT’s network and full suite of managed networking services.”

GTT EnvisionCORE is the globally distributed virtualized environment of GTT Envision. It includes GTT’s leading industry, global Tier 1 IP backbone and distributed compute platform, spanning six continents to bring enhanced connectivity, security and scalability. It is complemented by GTT’s suite of managed networking and security as a service solutions, professional services and comprehensive single digital gateway. The company recently announced the successful implementation of state-of-the-art IP networking technology throughout its infrastructure, which enables customers to easily scale its core from 400G to 800G in response to surging traffic volumes due to AI adoption and other market trends.