Most traffic between Paris and Milan travels the long way round — down the coast through Lyon and Marseille, adding distance and latency to every packet. euNetworks has now punched a more direct path through the Alps.
The new route spans 1,057 kilometres and runs on infrastructure diverse from the existing coastal options, giving carriers and cloud operators a shorter, geographically separated alternative between two of Europe's largest data centre markets.
The timing reflects a broader strategic push by euNetworks. In October 2025, the company completed a Frankfurt-to-Milan route via Zurich. The two routes combined create the shortest available paths between Frankfurt and Milan: 771km and 1,000km. Taken together, they reshape the geometry of European backbone connectivity in the corridor that matters most for AI and cloud workloads.
Paris sits at the centre of euNetworks' metro operations on the western end, with 38 on-net data centres. Milan anchors 18 on-net facilities on the Italian side. Customers on the new route gain access to euNetworks' broader network of 600-plus connected data centres across 53 cities in 17 countries.
The infrastructure play is explicit: as hyperscalers and enterprise AI workloads grow hungrier for low-latency connectivity between major European hubs, shorter, diverse routes command a premium — both in performance and in resilience. A coastal path and an Alpine path can fail independently, which matters to operators building N+1 redundancy into transcontinental architectures.
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