COMLINK relies on ETIX data centers to offer local sovereign hosting to public sector organisations
Through CANUT, the French central purchasing body for digital and telecoms services, public sector organisations gain access to 13 certified, 100% French data centers to secure their sensitive data, control their costs and meet their regulatory obligations.
Lille, April 2026
KEY FIGURES13
Data centers
Certified and 100% French, at the heart of the regions.
5
Regional lots won
Under CANUT’s “Cloud and Hosting” framework agreement.
35,000+
Public sector bodies covered
Local authorities, State bodies and public institutions.
100 Gbps
Wave links
Of guaranteed capacity for the most demanding traffic.
Direct, simplified access to sovereign partners
For public buyers, contracting with a hosting provider used to mean months of administrative procedure.
The contractual framework led by CANUT is now pre-established: any public institution can choose, commit and deploy, without delay and without legal risk, in full compliance with public procurement rules.
13 data centers at the heart of the regions
COMLINK and ETIX announce that they have won 5 regional lots under the “Cloud and Hosting” framework agreement led by CANUT, covering the following regions:
For the more than 35,000 local authorities, State bodies and public institutions in the five regions covered, this framework agreement translates into concrete, immediate commitments.
SECURITY & SOVEREIGNTYProtected data, hosted in France
🇫🇷 Data hosted exclusively on French soil, in European-owned infrastructure
🔒 No dependence on extraterritorial regulation
✅ A pre-qualified ETIX infrastructure foundation, certified HDS, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001
This foundation is a solid prerequisite for public sector organisations embarking on a regulatory compliance process.
PROXIMITYA main data center in every region
Each region has a main data center on site or in its immediate vicinity, reducing latency and ensuring direct access and a close working relationship with the COMLINK and ETIX teams.
North cluster: ETIX Lille #1, #2, #3 and #4
Paris cluster: ETIX Paris #1 and #3
West cluster: ETIX Nantes #1, #2 and #3, ETIX Vendée #1
South cluster: ETIX Lyon #1, ETIX Toulouse #1, ETIX Montpellier #1
Dark fibre and Wave links
COMLINK connects sites over its own dark fibre: unshared physical links, with no transit through a third-party operator subject to foreign jurisdiction.
For the most demanding traffic (real-time data replication, remote access to business applications, inter-site connectivity): Wave links of up to 100 Gbps of guaranteed capacity.
Bandwidth, link availability and restoration time commitments are written into the SLAs of the CANUT framework agreement.
MIGRATIONTurnkey digital migration, with no service disruption
COMLINK handles the entire migration:
✓ upfront audit and mapping;
✓ gradual switchover with synchronised replication;
✓ documented, contractual rollback;
✓ 24/7 post-migration monitoring.
Public decision-makers bear no operational risk on the path to modernisation.
SINGLE POINT OF CONTACTAn end-to-end chain
COMLINK manages the full stack:
“Speed and sovereignty”
Public sector organisations should not have to choose between speed and sovereignty. The CANUT framework agreement gives them both: direct access to certified French operators present in their regions, without the burden of a tender process. That is the promise COMLINK and ETIX are delivering together, today, across mainland France.
Executive Management, COMLINK
“Sovereignty as a non-negotiable foundation”
ETIX is a 100% French company with European shareholders. Our mission is simple: to give local authorities and public bodies the same quality of infrastructure as the world’s major cities, right in their own region, with sovereignty as a non-negotiable foundation.
Executive Management, ETIX
