# ALiX Project

The ALiX project is a proposal from the Cabildo de Tenerife (Council of Tenerife), led by the Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (Technological Institute and of Renewable Energies), with the purpose of promoting the competitiveness of the island of Tenerife towards the global market of the information and communication technologies and improving the technological resources in the Canary Islands. In order to do so, four courses of action have been suggested:
* Development and implementation of a data center in Tenerife, (D-ALiX, formerly NAPWACI: Neutral Access Point of Western Africa and Canary Islands), that will serve as a neutral point of traffic aggregation and distribution for three continents, in addition to a gateway for the South of Europe.
* Constitution of a public carrier, dependent on the Cabildo de Tenerife, that will negotiate the terrestrial infraestructures upon the guidance of the Cabildo and, at the same time, new construction statements are agreed, putting them at the disposal of all carriers in order to promote competitiveness.
* Participation of the Technological Institute of Telecommunications of Tenerife (IT$^3$) in the installation and implementation of an alternative submarine cable in competitiveness with the main telecommunications carrier.
* Promotion, through the Technological Institute of Telecommunications of Tenerife, of the arrival of new submarine cables which will link the island with Africa and, in the future, with Latin America.
Included in the initiative of the ALiX Project is the D-ALiX (formerly NAPWACI). This high availability data center is situated in the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands). The data center was awarded in the Datacenter Dynamics Awards 2010 ceremony due to its innovation.

## Sources

* ↑ Tenerife has pioneering fibre optic systems installed
* ↑ New NAP data centre in Tenerife due to be completed in March
* ↑ "Foundation Stone of NAPWACI – all systems go for Network Access Point West Africa-Canary Islands — Canary PR". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
* ↑ Apparently Google Inc. plans huge relocation away from California
* ↑ Tenerife set to join the 21st century in telecommunications
* ↑ "CanaLink and Alcatel-Lucent sign multi-million Euro contract to deploy 2000 km submarine cable network linking Canary Islands to Spain's mainland". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
* ↑ Oasis Fm – Tenerife's official British radio station
* ↑ "Foundation Stone of NAPWACI – all systems go for Network Access Point West Africa-Canary Islands — Canary PR". Archived from the original on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
* ↑ "CanaLink, Alcatel-Lucent sign multi-million euro submarine contract".
* ↑ "Canarian Weekly newspaper - distributed across Tenerife to 1000's of residents & tourists every week". Archived from the original on 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
* ↑ "TelecomTV | News | CanaLink and Alcatel-Lucent sign multi-million Euro contract to deploy 2000 km submarine cable network linking Canary Islands to Spain's mainland". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
* ↑ "DatacenterDynamics | Datacentre Leaders Awards winners announced". Archived from the original on 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-03-02.