SNCF – TERRALPHA
Creation of a digital slab and enhancement of the optical fibre
A digital slab on the Saint-Pierre-des-Corps site
Through Terralpha, a subsidiary of SNCF Réseau, the SNCF group wants to take advantage of its national 100 Gbits fibre optic network to offer a range of serviced spaces for the installation of datacenters on its own land. Customers can set up their own regional micro-datacenter in a secure, developed area connected to the Terralpha network and supplied with electricity.
Terralpha wishes to use the SNCF railway stations, which are secure and ideally located in city centres, to enable its clients to bring computing, storage and transmission capacities as close as possible to the places where the data is generated and used.
The Terralpha digital slab is thus the solution for Edge Computing customers.
In 2021, SNCF Réseau created its subsidiary Terralpha, whose objective is to market access to its network of 20,000 km of fibre scattered throughout the country, with the ambition “to make the most of the excess fibre available through strategic partnerships, helping to reduce the digital divide”.
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datacenters
750 sqm
construction of concrete structures on piles
1,5 MW
site power supply
EDGE
About Terralpha
Founded in 2021, Terralpha, a subsidiary of SNCF Réseau, offers Ultra High Speed data transport services. Its motto “Ultra High Speed at the gateway to the territories” is based on the ambition to deploy highly reliable Ultra High Speed points of presence in France. Terralpha’s mission is to guarantee a trusted routing of data traffic through an active and passive infrastructure in full ownership. In addition, and in order to facilitate the development of regional data centres, Terralpha will be able to offer hosting solutions known as “Digital Slabs” to accommodate the equipment required for the storage and local processing of information.
