Zaventem/Leuven, Belgium, February 10, 2025. Eurofiber announces today the acquisition of business-critical connectivity provider Arcadiz. With this acquisition, Eurofiber strengthens its position in providing robust and scalable network solutions for customers’ advanced network requirements, further supporting its long-term growth objectives with its open access digital infrastructure.
Arcadiz, established in 1999, is a leading business critical connectivity provider with vast experience in designing, building, maintaining and operating networks for the most advanced customer network requirements in Benelux. Arcadiz provides high-end tailored connectivity services to large customers across profit and non-profit segments, including large enterprises, governments and utilities. Based in Leuven, Arcadiz has 38 employees.
Kris Warreyn, CEO of Arcadiz, declared: “Arcadiz has grown steadily over the last several years and our customers entrust us with their critical digital infrastructure, based on our expertise in tailoring solutions to the specific needs and requirements of each customer. Our founders, Jos Vermeylen and Marc Vandeputte, are proud that our team can embark on this new growth chapter with the Eurofiber team. With this partnership, our current and future customers will benefit from Eurofiber’s ability to deliver and support top notch connectivity. They will also be able to leverage the economies of scale that come with a European player operating a densely meshed open access network and interconnection with most data centers across four countries.”
Hans Witdouck, CEO of Eurofiber Belgium, added: “The acquisition of Arcadiz is part of Eurofiber’s European growth strategy to address the growing complexity of customer needs and extend our network and capabilities, in line with our commitment to providing open access digital infrastructure. Arcadiz has long been a trusted partner of Eurofiber, and a large part of its connectivity solutions makes use of Eurofiber’s fiber optic network, Arcadiz excels in delivering tailored, business-critical connectivity solutions designed for large enterprises and public institutions. By joining forces, we will strengthen our position in this segment in Belgium and beyond to further enhance our expertise. Eurofiber and Arcadiz have shared values supporting customers to innovate and reach their full potential, nurturing a strong partner ecosystem, with an excellent track record and a focus on reliability, security, and ESG. We are very excited about the acquisition of Arcadiz and look forward to our journey together with Kris and the Arcadiz team.”
Completion of the acquisition of Arcadiz is subject to customary regulatory approvals in Belgium and is expected to conclude in Q1 2025.
About Eurofiber
Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since 2000. Utilizing our own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof connectivity and digital infrastructure solutions to companies, government bodies and non-profit organizations.
Customers have complete freedom to choose the services, applications and providers they need, allowing them to tap into the full potential of digital innovation. Eurofiber has a 72,300 km fiberoptic network in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, expanding by 60 km per week on average. In addition to that, Eurofiber operates eleven datacenters in the Netherlands and France. Supplementing that vital infrastructure, we also offer interconnectivity between nearly all carrier-neutral datacenters in the Netherlands and Belgium through the DCspine platform.
The Eurofiber Group consists of Eurofiber (Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany), and Eurofiber Cloud Infra (Netherlands). Eurofiber participates in the joint venture Unifiber in Belgium and has an investment partnership with a nationwide fiber infrastructure operation with NGN Fiber Network (Germany).
Eurofiber is backed by Antin Infrastructure Partners, and PGGM infrastructure Fund as a minority shareholder. Antin is a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure. With over EUR31bn in assets under management across its Flagship, Mid Cap and NextGen investment strategies, Antin targets investments in the digital, energy and environment, transport, and social infrastructure sectors. PGGM Infrastructure Fund is an open-ended fund with EUR14bn assets under management in infrastructure investments. Since 2010, the fund has been active in various infrastructure sectors, including digital.
About Arcadiz
Arcadiz is a leading business critical connectivity provider with more than 25 years of experience in designing, building, maintaining and operating networks for complex business connectivity needs in Benelux. The networks are delivered turnkey and are built with the most advanced optical, packet and IP technologies meeting customers’ ever-growing demand for confidentiality, integrity and availability of their data.
Arcadiz combines consultancy and network integration with its own business critical connectivity. To this purpose, Arcadiz operates a DWDM and an MPLS-IP backbone with A-brand hardware connecting major datacenters in the Benelux and FLAPD cities (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin) for its customers valuing low-latency, deterministic, secure, and uncontended connectivity with 99,9995% availability.
Arcadiz has its headquarters in Leuven and operates in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
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Eurofiber
Veerle Wijsgeer, Mediarelaties
+ 32 495 58 07 97
veerle@wijsgeerpr.com
Arcadiz
Kris Warreyn
+ 32 472 52 18 04
kwa@arcadiz.com