Bandwidth IG deploys third diverse dark fiber route in San Francisco Bay Area
Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) says it has added a third, fully diverse dark fiber route to its footprint in the San Francisco Bay Area. The new dark fiber route runs from Santa Clara to the Great Oaks area of San Jose.
The fiber network services provider notes that approximately 300 MW of new data center capacity is under development in the Silicon Valley market, according to commercial real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield. Bandwidth IG thus expects hyperscalers, enterprises, and network operators will find newly built, 100% underground, and high-count dark fiber appealing.
“With this expansion that connects Santa Clara to San Jose, Bandwidth IG becomes the go-to dark fiber provider with three fully diverse routes between Santa Clara and the Great Oaks area of San Jose,” asserted Bruce Garrison, CEO of Bandwidth IG. “Santa Clara-to-Great Oaks is one of the most data-centric routes in Silicon Valley. We realized the imperative need of having multiple routes to keep up with demand and to provide true network optionality in the region.”
Bandwidth IG says it has deployed more than 200 route miles of dark fiber in the area in the past three years (see, for example, "Bandwidth IG completes Silicon Valley dark fiber route between Santa Clara and South San Jose"). The company adds that it plans to roll out another 90 route miles this year. Its San Francisco Bay Area network is available at more than 65 data centers in the market, according to Bandwidth IG.
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