Balkan Digital Gateway: Enhancing Greece's Regional Connectivity#

Polina Kudriashova, Valentin Velichkov

• Why: Regional fiber/cross-border connectivity projects shape the physical WAN topology that interconnects Greek (and Balkan) datacenters and IXs. For a PM whose remit includes physical DC/WAN interconnect, hearing where new regional capacity is being built — and its latency/route-diversity implications — is useful planning context, even if the talk is more project-update than deep technical.
• What: An overview of the Balkan Digital Gateway initiative and Greece's position as a regional interconnect hub (program text and deck metadata only).
• How: Unknown; expect maps of new/expanded routes and interconnection points rather than protocol-level detail.
• Where applicable: Directly relevant only to operators with SE-European footprint or Greece-landing infrastructure; project- and geography-specific, and pitched at policy/funding-body level rather than engineer level.