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Carrier-Neutral Interconnection.
Your Carriers. Your Cloud. Canadian Infrastructure.

Physical and logical connectivity services inside and between Qu's Canadian data centres. 15+ carrier networks, Megaport cloud on-ramps, cross connects, structured cabling, and carrier interconnects - all delivered from facilities under Canadian ownership and Canadian law.

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15+
Carrier networks across all facilities
9
Canadian data centres
5
Canadian markets
3
Major cloud providers on Megaport
100%
Canadian-owned and operated

Interconnection Services

The physical and logical layer that connects your colocation to the world.

Interconnection is the layer between your colocated infrastructure and everything it needs to reach - carriers, clouds, and other customers. Qu's carrier-neutral facilities give you complete choice over how you connect, with no upstream lock-in and no single-provider dependency.

Carrier-Neutral Facilities

Your carriers. Your choice.

Qu does not force customers onto a single upstream provider. Bring any third-party carrier or circuit - Bell, Telus, your own WAN, a private fibre run - and Qu terminates it. Physically isolated carrier interconnect rooms at every facility ensure diversity and security.

  • No upstream carrier lock-in
  • Physically isolated carrier interconnect rooms
  • Multiple isolated entry points into every facility
  • 15+ carrier networks across the Qu platform

Cloud On-Ramps

Megaport - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Direct, private connections from Qu facilities to major hyperscalers via Megaport. Lower latency, higher throughput, and more predictable performance than routing over the public internet. On-demand provisioning without long-term carrier contracts.

  • AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Interconnect
  • Delivered via Megaport at select Qu facilities
  • Private connectivity - traffic does not traverse the public internet
  • On-demand provisioning and scalable bandwidth

Cross Connects

Direct physical connectivity inside the DC

Physical cabling between endpoints inside a Qu facility - customer to carrier, customer to cloud on-ramp, or customer to customer. Provisioned and managed by Qu. Dedicated, private, low-latency connectivity that never touches the public internet.

  • Customer to carrier cross connects
  • Customer to Megaport cloud on-ramp cross connects
  • Customer to customer connectivity within the same facility
  • Provisioned and managed by Qu

Structured Cabling

Professional installation within your footprint

Professional cabling design and installation within customer cabinets, cages, and suites. Power, copper, and fibre cabling to ensure clean, serviceable, and standards-compliant deployments. Reduces cable management complexity and improves long-term maintainability.

  • Power, copper, and fibre cabling
  • Standards-compliant installation
  • Clean, documented, and serviceable deployments
  • Available for cabinets, cages, and private suites

Carrier Interconnects

Know what's available before you sign

A transparent listing of the carrier networks available at each Qu facility. Customers can confirm which providers are already on-net before selecting a location, eliminating the risk of needing to pull a new circuit. Often asked about during colocation conversations.

  • Per-facility carrier rosters available on request
  • Avoid pulling new circuits to facilities with your carrier already on-net
  • Includes regional carriers not available at hyperscale-focused facilities
  • Cross-links with colocation for unified infrastructure planning

Carrier-Neutral Facilities

No single carrier controls your path to the internet.

Carrier-neutral means Qu does not own or exclusively partner with an upstream provider. You bring your carriers. You negotiate your own contracts. You retain full flexibility to change providers, add redundancy, or optimize routing without changing your colocation provider. Your network strategy is yours.

What carrier-neutral gives you

Bring any third-party carrier or WAN circuit - Bell, Telus, Axia, Rogers, Zayo, Allstream, Shaw, your own fibre
Qu terminates your circuit and provides physically isolated carrier interconnect rooms
Multiple isolated entry points into every facility for true physical path diversity
No carrier exclusivity agreements that limit your connectivity choices
Combine multiple carriers for redundancy without building your own infrastructure
Peter's note on positioning: Carrier-neutral belongs on the Interconnection page, not just Colocation, even though colocation prospects ask about it most often. It is a standalone value proposition for network architects and procurement teams evaluating connectivity options.

Why carrier-neutral matters at scale

Single-carrier facilities

Many facilities are owned or majority-controlled by a carrier - or have preferred provider agreements that effectively funnel customers toward one upstream. Your connectivity options are limited by whoever the facility operator has a commercial relationship with.

Qu carrier-neutral facilities

Qu operates as a pure-play data centre company with no upstream carrier relationship to protect. Every carrier decision is yours. You can run Bell alongside Telus, add Axia for redundancy in Alberta, or bring your own WAN. Qu provisions the physical interconnection and stays out of your carrier negotiations.

The sovereignty angle

Qu's carrier-neutral posture sits inside a 100% Canadian-owned facility. The physical interconnection infrastructure, the meet-me rooms, and the carrier termination points are all under Canadian jurisdiction. Foreign-owned carrier-neutral facilities offer choice without sovereignty. Qu offers both.

Cloud On-Ramps

Direct to cloud. Private path. Canadian jurisdiction.

Connecting to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud over the public internet means variable latency, unpredictable performance, and data transiting infrastructure you do not control. Qu's cloud on-ramps via Megaport deliver a private, dedicated path to hyperscaler networks directly from your colocation environment.

What Megaport cloud on-ramps provide

AWS Direct Connect - private connectivity from Qu to your AWS environment
Azure ExpressRoute - dedicated path to Microsoft Azure services
Google Cloud Interconnect - direct connection to Google Cloud Platform
Traffic does not traverse the public internet - dedicated, private path
On-demand provisioning - no long-term carrier contract required
Available at select Qu facilities - contact us to confirm availability at your target location

Public internet cloud connectivity

Traffic routes over the public internet to reach cloud provider networks. Latency varies. Packet loss is possible. Data transits multiple networks you do not control. For latency-sensitive or data-sensitive workloads, this is the wrong architecture.

Qu cloud on-ramps via Megaport

A dedicated, private connection from your Qu colocation environment directly to the hyperscaler's network. Consistent latency, predictable throughput, and traffic that does not touch the public internet. Provisioned on-demand through Megaport without a long-term carrier contract.

Cloud on-ramps are available at select Qu facilities via Megaport. Availability varies by location. Contact our network team to confirm which facilities offer Megaport connectivity and which hyperscaler on-ramps are available at your target site.

Cross Connects and Structured Cabling

Private, physical connectivity inside the facility.

Cross connects and structured cabling are the physical infrastructure layer inside the data centre. They create dedicated, private connections between endpoints without touching the public internet, and ensure that the cabling within your environment is clean, documented, and maintainable.

Cross connects

Physical cable provisioned by Qu connecting two defined endpoints inside the facility
Customer to carrier - connect your equipment directly to a carrier's termination point
Customer to cloud on-ramp - connect to the Megaport port for your hyperscaler connection
Customer to customer - private connectivity between two tenants in the same facility
Provisioned and managed by Qu - no customer cabling crew required
Dedicated, low-latency path that does not traverse the public internet

Structured cabling

Professional cabling design and installation within your cabinet, cage, or suite
Power, copper, and fibre cabling to standards-compliant specifications
Clean, labelled, and documented for ease of future servicing
Reduces cable management complexity that accumulates over time in unmanaged environments
Improves airflow and cooling efficiency in high-density deployments
Available as part of initial deployment or for retrofits of existing environments

Carrier Roster

Know which carriers are on-net before you choose a facility.

Carrier availability varies by facility. The table below reflects confirmed carriers from Qu facility spec sheets. Contact us for the complete carrier roster for any specific location, including any carriers added since publication.

Facility Market Confirmed Carriers
CGY1 Calgary Rogers, Shaw, Axia, Telus, Bell, Zayo, Allstream
CGY2 Calgary - Downtown Rogers, Shaw, Axia, Telus, Bell, Goco, City of Calgary
EDM1 Edmonton - Financial Core Rogers, Shaw, Axia, Telus, Bell, Zayo
OTT2 Ottawa - Nepean Rogers, Telus, Bell, Zayo, Allstream
OTT3 Ottawa - Kanata Rogers, Telus, Bell, Zayo, GoCo, Videotron
CGY3, EDM2, TOR3, LDN1 Airdrie / Edmonton Tier III / Toronto / London ON Contact us for carrier roster
Carrier rosters are updated regularly. The table above reflects confirmed carriers from published facility spec sheets. Additional carriers may be available. Contact our network team for the most current roster for any specific facility, including Megaport availability and cloud on-ramp options.

Why Qu for Interconnection

Carrier-neutral connectivity inside Canadian-owned infrastructure.

Cologix and Equinix lead with interconnection density - hundreds of carriers, dozens of cloud on-ramps, massive ecosystems. That is a genuine advantage at scale. But both are U.S.-headquartered. The infrastructure and the connectivity traversing it remain subject to US legal authority. Qu's interconnection offer is not larger - it is sovereign.

Your choice of carriers - not ours

Qu has no upstream carrier to protect and no exclusivity agreements to enforce. You bring any carrier, negotiate your own terms, and combine providers for redundancy. The physical infrastructure supports your network strategy without shaping it.

Direct to cloud without the public internet

Megaport cloud on-ramps deliver a private path to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud from inside Qu's facilities. Lower latency, consistent throughput, and traffic that never touches the public internet - from infrastructure that is 100% Canadian-owned.

Interconnection under Canadian jurisdiction

Foreign-owned carrier-neutral facilities offer connectivity choice. Qu offers connectivity choice inside infrastructure where Canadian law applies exclusively. The physical interconnection layer, the meet-me rooms, and the data traversing them are not subject to the US CLOUD Act or foreign compulsion.

The Full Infrastructure Picture

Interconnection is the network layer. Here is what surrounds it.

Interconnection services layer directly onto Qu's colocation, cloud, and connectivity infrastructure under one commercial relationship.

Colocation

Enterprise-grade, carrier-neutral colocation across 9 Canadian data centres. The physical environment that interconnection services terminate into. Cabinet, cage, and private suite options.

See Colocation

High-Availability Connectivity

Multi-homed internet connectivity across 3-4 independent Tier 1 upstream carriers. Redundant core network. Dual links to your equipment. 100% uptime with no single point of failure.

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Managed Network and Security

Fully managed Fortigate firewall sitting on top of your interconnection layer. Qu manages the security perimeter so your team manages the applications above it.

See Managed Services

FAQ

Interconnection questions - answered

The questions network architects, IT managers, and procurement teams ask when evaluating interconnection options.

Carrier-neutral means Qu does not force customers onto a single upstream provider. Customers bring any third-party carrier or circuit into any Qu facility. Qu terminates it and provides the physical space for interconnection. Customers retain full control over their carrier relationships, contracts, and network routing decisions.
Qu offers cloud on-ramps to AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Interconnect via Megaport at select facilities. Megaport provides on-demand, software-defined connectivity to hyperscaler networks without a long-term carrier contract. Contact our network team to confirm Megaport availability at your target facility.
A cross connect is a physical cable provisioned by Qu connecting two endpoints inside the same facility - typically your equipment to a carrier's termination point, or to the Megaport port for a cloud on-ramp. If you want to connect to a carrier or cloud provider that is already on-net at your Qu facility, a cross connect is the fastest and most cost-effective way to do it - no new circuit required, no public internet traversal.
Carrier availability varies by facility. Calgary facilities carry Rogers, Shaw, Axia, Telus, Bell, and others. Ottawa facilities carry Rogers, Telus, Bell, Zayo, Allstream, Videotron, and others. Edmonton carries Rogers, Shaw, Axia, Telus, Bell, and Zayo. Contact us for the full, current carrier roster for any specific facility.
Yes. All interconnection services are delivered from Qu's own Canadian data centres. Qu is 100% Canadian-owned, which means the physical interconnection infrastructure and the data traversing it are subject exclusively to Canadian law. They are not exposed to the US CLOUD Act or any foreign legal authority - a structural fact of ownership, not a contractual assurance.
Yes. Cross connects, structured cabling, and cloud on-ramps are available to any customer with an active Qu colocation agreement. They layer onto your existing commercial relationship without requiring a new contract. Contact our network team and we can scope what is needed for your current environment.

Ready to connect your infrastructure?

Our network specialists will assess your connectivity requirements, confirm carrier and cloud on-ramp availability at your target facility, and scope the right interconnection solution for your environment.

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