What ColocationIX does

ColocationIX GmbH is a privately held German colocation and managed-infrastructure provider operating a single high-security data center inside a converted federal civil defense bunker in Bremen-Walle. The facility is engineered to EU DIN EN 50600 Class 4 and US TIA-942 Tier 4 standards, incorporates a permanent oxygen reduction fire-prevention system at 15%, three-factor biometric access, multi-path redundant power and cooling, and a geothermal cooling loop achieving a PUE of 1.1 and carbon-neutral operation. Connectivity runs over AS61955 with an IP backbone exceeding 100 Gbps (referenced at 200 Gbps) and direct peering to DE-CIX, AMS-IX, LINX, and China. Certifications include ISO 27001 (information security), ISO 27701 (privacy extension), ISO 27018 (cloud data protection), with ISO 9001 also referenced for managed hosting. The company was awarded the eco://award 2018 in Datacenter Infrastructure by eco Verband der Internetwirtschaft, and is recognized as a KRITIS-grade facility (note: firmographics list year_founded 2011 while the bunker facility opened on 2017-11-14; both anchors are preserved).

The core product is colocation — premium 19-inch 42HE racks priced from EUR 690/month with 22 kW power, A-B redundant feeds, and tiered security zones — supplemented by server housing, managed hosting (Windows and Linux with OS patching), private/public/hybrid cloud via VMware clustering, Cloud Connect into Azure/AWS/GCP, backup, and DDoS plus Intrusion Prevention services. An additional product line, ColocationIX Meet, offers DSGVO-compliant video conferencing on Jitsi Meet, with a free tier and paid managed servers supporting up to 2,000 concurrent participants. Revenue is generated via subscription rack and managed-services contracts, plus bandwidth and DDoS add-ons, and 60-month association-member promotional contracts. Primary customers are German Mittelstand enterprises (Nehlsen AG, VRG, Wessels und Mueller, Capricorn, it-NGO, KOMATSU), KRITIS operators across regulated verticals, software/IT service providers, and municipal/government entities. Distribution combines direct enterprise field sales with a self-service rack configurator and channel partnerships through TeleTrusT, BVMW, DDV, and Maritime Cluster Norddeutschland.

The company is founder-/partner-owned, with managing director Dinh-Tri Huynh and shareholder Andres Dickehut; no external funding rounds, M&A, or public listing are disclosed. Operating geographies span Germany, broader Europe, North America, China, and Asia-Pacific via transit services, with single-site delivery from the Bremen facility. Approximately 11-50 employees support operations across colocation, security, cloud administration, and managed-services functions.

Name

ColocationIX

Legal name

ColocationIX GmbH

Website

https://colocationix.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ColocationIX GmbH is a German colocation and managed-infrastructure provider operating a Tier-4-equivalent data center inside a converted federal civil defense bunker in Bremen. It serves German Mittelstand enterprises, KRITIS critical-infrastructure operators, software/IT service providers, and public-sector clients with high-security rack hosting, managed hosting, cloud interconnect, and DSGVO-compliant support services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Center Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Retail Colocation (Multi-Tenant Data Centers) (HDABACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Managed Colocation & Remote Hands Services (HDABACAD), Interconnection-Focused Colocation (IX / Meet-Me-Room Ecosystems) (HDABACAF)

Keywords

• Data center services
• Colocation services
• Server housing
• Managed hosting
• Cloud services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bremen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Colocation Services: Rack rental in high-security data center facilities. Provides 19-inch premium racks (42HE) with power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity. Pricing based on number of racks, fiber cross-connects, power consumption, and network connections. Core revenue driver.
2. Server Housing: Physical space and infrastructure for customer-owned IT equipment. Includes technical rooms, power supply, UPS, backup generators, climate control, security zones, access control, and video surveillance.
3. Managed Hosting: Fully managed physical server services for Windows and Linux. Includes hardware provisioning, OS management, patching, and optional add-ons. Revenue from server rental plus management fees.
4. Network Services: Internet transit, IP connectivity, MPLS replacement, peering services, and CDN including China CDN. Bandwidth-based and subscription pricing for connectivity services.
5. Jitsi Meet Videoconferencing: DSGVO-compliant video conferencing service based on Jitsi Meet open-source platform. Free tier with 30 concurrent users. Paid managed servers from EUR 250/month with up to 2,000 concurrent participants.
6. Cloud Connect: Private connectivity services linking customer infrastructure to public cloud providers and other data centers.
7. Backup Services: Data backup and disaster recovery solutions for customer critical data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ColocationIX operates a hardened bunker-based data center in Bremen, Germany, providing colocation and server housing, multi-cloud services (private, public, hybrid), managed hosting, IP transit, cloud connect, CDN, and managed security services (DDoS protection, IPS, RTBH) to business customers. The facility has been operational since 2017 and the company is incorporated as ColocationIX GmbH, founded in 2011.

Product overview

ColocationIX is a German colocation and data center services provider operating a high-security facility in a former federal civil defense bunker in Bremen. The company's core offering is colocation and server housing services, supplemented by managed hosting, private/public/hybrid cloud solutions, and video conferencing (ColocationIX Meet). Security services include DDoS protection, intrusion prevention, and backup solutions. Network services encompass IP transit, CDN, cloud connectivity, and specialized Digital Silk Road connectivity to China. All services are delivered from Tier-4 equivalent infrastructure certified to ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 27018 standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ColocationIX Meet: A GDPR-compliant video conferencing and online meeting tool operated on German ColocationIX servers, based on the open-source Jitsi Meet platform.

Products and services

• Colocation / Server Housing Renting rack and floor space inside ColocationIX's bunker-based data center in Bremen for businesses to house their own servers and IT equipment. Targeted at enterprises and mid-market companies needing secure, compliant physical infrastructure in Germany.
• Premium Rack (19" 42HE) Standardized 19-inch, 42U premium rack units offered within the colocation footprint, providing customers with pre-configured, ready-to-use rack space with power and connectivity in the Bremen bunker facility.
• Private Cloud Dedicated private cloud environment hosted in ColocationIX's Bremen data center, providing isolated compute, storage, and networking resources for business customers requiring a single-tenant cloud with German data residency.
• Public Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud Combined private/public cloud architecture with on-ramps to customer colocation infrastructure, enabling businesses to run workloads across ColocationIX-managed cloud and their own colocated systems.
• Managed Hosting Fully managed server and application hosting on ColocationIX infrastructure, where the provider handles OS, patching, monitoring, and operational tasks for the customer. Targeted at businesses that want to outsource day-to-day infrastructure operations.
• IP Transit Wholesale IP transit providing upstream Internet connectivity from ColocationIX's network to customers' infrastructure, enabling businesses to reach the global Internet from their colocated or hosted systems.
• Cloud Connect Direct, private network connections from ColocationIX infrastructure to major public cloud providers, giving customers low-latency, reliable cloud on-ramps without traversing the public Internet.
• CDN (Content Delivery Network) Content Delivery Network service that caches and delivers web/media content closer to end users, provided by ColocationIX to business customers needing faster content delivery and reduced origin load.
• DDoS Protection Managed Distributed Denial of Service mitigation service that detects and filters volumetric and application-layer attacks targeting customer infrastructure, offered as a standalone managed security service.
• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Network-based intrusion prevention service that monitors traffic for malicious activity and automatically blocks attacks, provided as a managed security offering to ColocationIX customers.
• RTBH (Remote Triggered Blackholing) Remote Triggered Blackholing service that drops attack traffic at the network edge on customer demand, providing a rapid-response mechanism to mitigate large-scale DDoS events.
• Backup Services Managed backup services that copy and store customer data on ColocationIX infrastructure, providing data protection and recovery capabilities for business customers.
• ColocationIX Meet
• Digital Silk Road (Digitale Seidenstraße) ColocationIX's 'Digital Silk Road' (Digitale Seidenstraße) initiative, providing connectivity and infrastructure services linking the Bremen facility to broader network and partnership routes for customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average 40% cost reduction in IT infrastructure operations compared to in-house data center ownership
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Wessels und Mueller (WM SE)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 November 2017Construction materials distributor utilizing ColocationIX for data center migration. Case study customer featured in joint video testimonial with Sievers Group. Partnership demonstrates successful mid-market enterprise deployment.
• TeleTrusT (IT-Sicherheit e.V.)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerGerman IT security association partnership offering promotional colocation pricing to member organizations. Joint marketing initiative during challenging COVID-19 period to support SME IT infrastructure.
• BVMW (Bundesverband der Mittelständischen Wirtschaft)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerGerman SME association partnership providing promotional colocation pricing and marketing to BVMW member companies.
• DDV (Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerGerman direct marketing association partnership offering promotional colocation pricing to member organizations.
• Maritimes Cluster Norddeutschland e.V.minorGTM or Marketing PartnerNorth German maritime industry cluster partnership offering promotional colocation pricing to member companies in shipping and logistics sectors.
• China Telecom (Next Generation Carrier Network)coreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic connectivity partnership enabling Digital Silk Road initiative. Direct fiber connections to China providing low-latency connectivity for European-China business routes. Partners include Alibaba, Tencent, and China Mobile.
• DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange)coreTechnology or IntegrationDirect peering connection to Frankfurt internet exchange, one of Europe's largest. Essential for low-latency German and European traffic exchange.
• AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange)coreTechnology or IntegrationDirect peering connection to Amsterdam internet exchange for European traffic optimization.
• LINX (London Internet Exchange)coreTechnology or IntegrationDirect peering connection to London internet exchange for UK and international traffic routing.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Hetzner Online: Germany's largest independent hosting and colocation provider, operating multiple data centers (Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki). Comparable in serving German Mittelstand with rack, server, and cloud services, though on a vastly larger scale and with multiple sites.
• Maincubes: German carrier-neutral data center operator with facilities in Frankfurt and Dusseldorf. Direct competitor for German Tier-3/4 retail colocation, particularly for KRITIS and enterprise customers seeking in-country sovereign hosting.
• NorthC Datacenters: Regional Dutch/German colocation operator with hubs including Frankfurt and Munich. Comparable in offering retail colocation to enterprise and mid-market customers, with similar focus on connectivity density and European data sovereignty.
• PlusServer: German managed hosting and colocation provider serving mid-market and enterprise. Comparable in offering managed hosting, server housing, and cloud connectivity from German data centers targeting KRITIS-adjacent customers.

Broad incumbents

• IONOS (1&1): Mass-market German hosting, cloud, and colocation operator with data centers in Karlsruhe and Berlin. Comparable as a domestic provider of colocation, hosting, and connectivity, but serves a much broader SMB-to-enterprise mix with substantially higher headcount.
• Equinix: Global colocation and interconnection leader with major German IBX facilities in Frankfurt, Munich, and Dusseldorf. Overlaps heavily on interconnection-focused colocation (including DE-CIX and peering ecosystems) but serves a much larger hyperscale-and-enterprise mix.
• NTT Global Data Centers: Global hyperscale-and-retail colocation operator with Frankfurt and Hamburg facilities. Overlaps with ColocationIX on enterprise/colocation offerings and direct cloud connectivity, but at far greater scale and global reach.
• CyrusOne: Hyperscale-focused colocation operator with European footprint. Overlaps with ColocationIX at the high-security enterprise colocation tier but with substantially larger and more diversified global capacity.
• Digital Realty (Interxion): Global colocation operator with Interxion-platform German facilities in Frankfurt and other hubs. Comparable in targeting regulated European customers with Tier 4 colocation, but with substantially broader geographic footprint and capital base.

Others

• GTT Communications: Global Tier 1 IP network and managed network services provider. Comparable as a direct adjacency on the IP transit and enterprise connectivity side, with similar customer overlap in European mid-market and enterprise segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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