Summary
- Zayo Europe has launched high capacity Tier 1 IP PoPs at Equinix WA1 and Atman WAW 2 in Warsaw.
- The sites connect Warsaw to Berlin and Frankfurt through Zayo Europe’s European backbone.
- The deployment brings 400GE enabled IP transit, Dedicated Internet Access, CloudLink, geographic diversity, and DDoS mitigation.
Zayo Europe has launched two high capacity Tier 1 IP points of presence in Warsaw, adding direct connections from Poland into Berlin, Frankfurt, and the wider European backbone.
The new PoPs are located at Equinix WA1 and Atman WAW 2, two important data centre environments in the Polish capital. Both sites are connected to Berlin and Frankfurt, giving customers in Poland a more direct route into core Western European interconnection markets.
Zayo Europe is bringing 400GE enabled Tier 1 IP Transit, Dedicated Internet Access, and CloudLink services to the two sites. The company is also offering geographic diversity and DDoS mitigation, which are increasingly important for customers running cloud, content, and AI services.
Warsaw adds more network depth
Poland has become one of Central and Eastern Europe’s stronger digital infrastructure markets, supported by domestic economic growth, enterprise demand, cloud investment, and its location between Western Europe, the Baltics, the Nordics, and other CEE markets.
Data centre growth in Warsaw depends on more than power and floor space. Carrier density, route diversity, peering options, DDoS protection, and resilient long haul paths all affect how useful a facility is for customers.
Zayo’s deployment across Equinix WA1 and Atman WAW 2 gives the network provider access to two separate Warsaw data centre environments. Equinix WA1 is an established interconnection hub, while Atman WAW 2 is part of a growing Polish campus environment.
That physical spread gives customers more than one route into Zayo’s network and reduces reliance on a single location. It also supports Warsaw’s role as a regional hub rather than simply a local colocation market.
Connectivity is part of site resilience
Network resilience depends on physical systems as well as routing logic. Fibre paths, ducts, power supplies, meet me rooms, optical equipment, and separate building locations all affect whether customers can maintain service during faults, maintenance, or traffic incidents.
The Warsaw Berlin Frankfurt link gives Polish customers a cleaner path into Germany’s main interconnection markets. Frankfurt remains one of Europe’s densest cloud and connectivity hubs, while Berlin Brandenburg is becoming more important as data centre development expands around the German capital.
The DDoS element adds a security layer to the deployment. Data centre customers running public services, financial platforms, cloud environments, content networks, and AI applications increasingly expect network protection to sit alongside facility security, backup power, and cyber controls.
Warsaw still has to manage the same infrastructure requirements as other growing hubs, including grid capacity, land, permits, construction labour, cooling design, and customer demand. Zayo’s expansion improves the connectivity layer, which is one of the conditions needed for the city to attract more cloud and AI workloads.
As more workloads move into regional European markets, customers will still expect high capacity routes back into Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, and other major hubs. Zayo’s Warsaw deployment gives the Polish market more of that reach.
