Cisco breaks ground on data centre in Frankfurt 16 March 2021 | Abigail Opiah Cisco today has launched a new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany, to serve customers using its Collaboration platform Webex in the European Union (EU) and the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEAR) region. The facility is scheduled for operation by end of June 2021. The company pointed out that the shift to remote working, combined with the need to keep distributed teams connected have increased the demand for cloud-based Collaboration platforms. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the use of digital collaboration tools, such as Cisco Webex, has increased by 74%, according to the company.