Market Connectivity Spotlight: Vienna

We’re gearing up for Platform Frontier Markets, Central & Eastern Europe in Vienna—a conference attended by investors, operators, government figures and leaders in the digital infrastructure and data center sector. As a natural gateway city for investment into Central and Eastern Europe due to geographic proximity, historical ties, and deep sector expertise, Vienna is a natural place to meet and connect.

But what are Vienna’s specific strengths as a connectivity hub? Thanks to our Market Connectivity Score—an interactive tool in our Data Center Research Service—we have granular data on the Vienna market.

Let’s take a look the Vienna market, its strengths, and how the data breaks down.

Where the data comes from: Market Connectivity Score

First: A quick note on how the Market Connectivity Score tool works.

The Market Connectivity Score tracks 45 different data points for 3,000 cities worldwide, including:

• Data center power,
• Number of ASNs peering locally,
• Cloud onramps, and more.

And those data points create scores in each category for cities on a scale of 0-100.

You can take a closer look at the MCS and the most connected and fastest growing cities for H1 2026 here.

Vienna connectivity overview

Vienna is a top 15 MCS score among European markets. Its strength lies in the city’s underlying long-distance network infrastructure, where it holds the 8th-highest ranking of any market in Europe. This top long-distance transport score is thanks to a couple factors:

• Aside from the FLAPs and Marseille, no other European market has more amassed international internet bandwidth.
  

• Vienna also connects to more international internet destinations and has more international carriers present than most other European markets.

Let’s take a look at Vienna’s current Market Connectivity Score and its scores across the categories that make up the overall connectivity score.

Overall score: 37.9

Rank: 39

Score breakdown:

• Pricing: 97.6
• Regulations and governance: 82.0
• Internet exchanges: 44.5
• Local access: 37.4
• Long-distance transport: 21.5
• Power: 20.9
• Geography and demographics: 17.6
• Cloud infrastructure: 13.9
• Data centers: 5.5

Subscribers to TeleGeography’s Data Center Research Service can read category definitions, the sources of those definitions, and our data methodology when using the interactive Market Connectivity Score tool.

Ready to connect in Vienna?

Register for the Platform Frontier Markets, Central & Eastern Europe conference on April 30, 2026 to connect with leaders working in Europe’s digital infrastructure—and see for yourself how the Vienna market stacks up.

You can also prep for the event with Senior Research Manager Jon Hjembo's presentation slides from the most recent Platform Global conference.