London - June 18, 2026 – RETN, has been named Best Pan-European Operator of the Year at the Carrier Community Global Awards 2026, recognising its expansion and role in supporting resilient connectivity across Europe and Asia.
The award reflects RETN’s position in Pan-European connectivity, underpinned by network growth, optical infrastructure development, and a focus on resilience across its Eurasian backbone.
Infrastructure-led expansion across Europe
Over the past 12 months, RETN has expanded its European footprint. It operates across 45 countries with more than 1,000 points of presence, supported by a 142,000km backbone that has grown through targeted expansion across key corridors and interconnection hubs.
Recent developments include market entries in Greece, Turkey, Croatia, and the United Arab Emirates, alongside network builds such as Milan–Zurich and Padua–Vienna, and upgrades across Warsaw, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam metro networks. These changes have improved route diversity and strengthened resilience across east–west traffic flows.
RETN integrated the Marseille–Milan Medloop and Barcelona–Milan 2Africa subsea systems into its backbone, increasing redundancy across Southern Europe. During major subsea disruption affecting Europe–Asia routes, traffic was rerouted across RETN’s terrestrial TRANSKZ corridor, maintaining service continuity for intercontinental paths.
Resilience and security focus
Alongside expansion, RETN has continued investment in resilience and service integrity through network engineering and security capabilities. The company has deployed a DDoS mitigation platform across its backbone, increasing scrubbing capacity and strengthening protection for IP Transit and DIA services.
It also maintains service delivery in Ukraine under wartime conditions and operates a dedicated DDoS scrubbing centre in Kyiv supporting regional continuity. These measures sit alongside ongoing work on route diversity, customer visibility tools, and support for open peering and IPv6 adoption.
Industry recognition
The award follows continued recognition of RETN’s infrastructure-led strategy, including its role in interconnection, resilience, and pan-regional capacity expansion.
RETN CEO Tony O’Sullivan said: “This recognition reflects the work of our engineering and operations teams in building a network designed with unique routes, true diversity, and resilience at scale. In a more unpredictable world, our focus remains on delivering consistent performance across every route we operate.”
Wouter Van Renterghem, Commercial Director for Western Europe, collecting the award for RETN.
About RETN
RETN is one of the fastest growing independent Eurasian network service providers, awarded the title of Best Pan-European Connectivity Provider, at the prestigious Global Connectivity Awards 2025, and the Digital Infrastructure Action Award, by The Tech Capital in 2025.
RETN’s unique solution to connect Europe and Asia is built on its own homogenous DWDM and IP/MPLS Network Platform and widely branched land routes, passing through Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia up to the border with China and further onwards into Southeast Asia.
RETN provides telecommunication services throughout its Eurasian network with short lead times, industry leading uptimes, and multiple layers of redundancy.
For more information on RETN and its services, please visit the company's website at www.retn.net
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