Redbus Interhouse
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Redbus Interhouse is a European colocation provider. It was founded in 1998 by the founder of Demon Internet, Cliff Stanford, with the establishment of its first data centre in London Docklands.
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[edit] London Sites
Redbus Harbour Exchange: Located at 6&7 Harbour exchange, this was their first London site retro fitted into commercial office space. It had a number of problems which Redbus spent a large amount of money correcting during 2005. It offers parking for a small number of vehicles outside and is adjacent to the London Docklands Arena.
Redbus Meridian Gate: Again retro fitting commercial office space, but this time to a much higher standard. It offers parking for a small number of vehicles.
Redbus Sovereign House: Their biggest facility, next to a multi-storey car park. This building has the best of all locations in London, specification wise. It was was their head office, but this has since been re-located to Exchange Tower to make room for more data floor in Sovereign House, and partly due to the TeleCityRedbus merge.
It now operates 7 data centres in 5 european cities - Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Milan and Paris.
[edit] Redbus Interhouse Frankfurt
During a power outage on the 1st and 2nd of November 2004, which shut down entire quarters in Frankfurt as well as Frankfurt International Airport for 11 minutes, Redbus interhouse Frankfurt managed to fully compensate for the outage during the entire failure period of about 10 hours.
[edit] Take over
Redbus was bought out by its competitor Telecity in late 2005.
The combined company is now called TeleCityRedbus.
Redbus operates seven facilities in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Milan and boasts more that 800 clients including AOL, AT&T, BT, Vodafone, City Index, BBC and Google. In 2004 Redbus lost £1.1m on a turnover of £16m.
TeleCity operates nine datacentres across six European markets and has some 600 clients.
The offer was made by an outfit called Torch Partners on behalf of TeleCity. In the summer TeleCity agreed to a £58m buyout led by the 3i investment group.
[edit] Internet exchanges
LINX connections are available at all of the London Redbus locations. Also present are LONAP, LIPEX, SovEx and Redbus Internet Exchange switches.
