Windstream Wholesale opens Los Angeles to Las Vegas fiber network route
Windstream Wholesale says it has lit a new direct route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas via its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) architecture. The company believes the fiber network link will appeal to customers looking for direct connectivity between the transpacific cables that land in the Los Angeles area and the Las Vegas data center community.
The new route is the third Windstream operates between the two points. On the Las Vegas end, Windstream offers connections to sites operated by Databank, Switch, Cyxtera, and Flexential, among others.
“As more subsea cables land into Los Angeles, there is a tremendous need for the kind of diverse, low-latency connections to domestic data centers that Windstream Wholesale’s expanding network is intentionally designed to deliver,” said Joe Scattareggia, executive vice president of Windstream Wholesale. “Windstream is APAC’s [Asia Pacific’s] gateway to North America and our ICON network is built to meet this burgeoning demand.”
Windstream says the new fiber network offers a variety of benefits via use of the ICON architecture (see "Windstream launches ICON Intelligent Converged Optical Network"). These include flexible design options, alien wave support and multi-vendor interoperability, as well as SDN-based provisioning and Layer 0 and 1 analytics.
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