BareFABRIC is live. It is the metro fabric that connects fourteen facilities across the Dutch metro under a single API and a single commercial framework. Every BareFABRIC Port at THG1 is included in the colocation footprint — no per-port peering uplift, no metro hand-off markup, no separate cross-connect ticket. We are publishing this on the day of the website launch so customers can read the same fabric story we have been telling on calls.
What BareFABRIC is
One platform with five product surfaces, each addressing a connectivity job that customers have historically had to source from a separate vendor:
- BareFABRIC Port — physical and logical access. 10 / 100 / 400 G. SFP+, QSFP28, QSFP-DD optics, all single-mode.
- BareFABRIC Metro — L2 EVPN across the fabric. Up to 128 VLANs per port. Included on every port.
- DFIX — internet exchange peering, open policy, RPKI drop-invalid by default, native peering on every BareFABRIC Port.
- DF Transit — blended IP transit delivered via Netrouting AS6206. Tier-1 upstreams (Tata Communications, NTT, Arelion). MTM by default.
- DF Fiber and DF Wave — dark fiber and managed DWDM waves on Nokia infrastructure. IRU options at 5, 10, or 20 years.
What is included at THG1
Every cabinet at THG1 ships with two free 10 G BareFABRIC Ports — one terminating locally, one terminating at any other fabric facility. This is not a launch promotion; it is a permanent inclusion in the THG1 colocation footprint. The economics are deliberate: cabinet pricing is the room and the power, and the fabric is the address. Tenants should not be paying twice to reach the second floor of the same building.
API-first, terraform on the roadmap
BareFABRIC exposes an OpenAPI 3.1 surface for the operations that matter day-to-day: provisioning a port, attaching a Metro circuit, opening a DFIX session, or initiating a transit blend change. A Terraform provider is on the v1.x roadmap. The portal is a thin layer over the same API — anything you can do in the portal you can do from a pipeline.
Six routes out, three carriers in
BareFABRIC sits on top of a building that has six discrete fiber routes out of THG1 across three carriers (Verizon, Eurofiber, Relined). Diversity is a property of the building first, then a property of the fabric. The fabric does not turn a single-homed building into a diverse one; we built the building first.
Pricing in the open
BareFABRIC Port pricing for non-THG1 tenants is on the port page: 10 G €75/month or €750/year, 100 G €500/month or €5,000/year, 400 G on request. THG1 tenants are inside the included envelope (two free 10 G ports per tenant); incremental 100 G is €400/month or €4,000/year. No setup fees on DFIX peering, no per-port peering uplift, no metro hand-off markup on the included Metro circuits.
What it replaces
If you currently route a third-party cross-connect to AMS-IX, a separate fiber to a peering pop, and a metro circuit to a second site, BareFABRIC consolidates all three onto a single port with a single SLA. The colocation tenant gets fewer vendors, fewer invoices, and a single escalation path. The network operator gets a fabric that was designed by people who run AS6206 next door.
Walk through the platform on the BareFABRIC overview, or request a quote sized to your requirement via the contact form.
