FiberLight opens fiber route between Atlanta and Charlotte
FiberLight, LLC says it has opened a new fiber route between Charlotte, NC, and Atlanta, GA. The Charlotte end is anchored by a new point of presence (PoP) in Flexential’s facility at 10105 David Taylor Drive.
While running more than 325 route miles, the new route provides a significantly more direct path between the two endpoints than alternatives, FiberLight asserts. Existing routes between North Carolina and Atlanta travel almost to the Gulf of Mexico before turning north to connect to Atlanta, according to the company. The new route therefore offers uptime, diversity, and resiliency as well as lower latency.
FiberLight will offer 100-Gbps and 400-Gbps Ethernet wavelengths over the new fiber route, as well as private Ethernet services, cloud connect, and dedicated internet access options. The new PoP is the fourth FiberLight has established with Flexential, joining PoPs in Atlanta, Tampa, and Dallas.
“Following our acquisition by Morrison & Co., FiberLight has made strategic investments to scale our business and expand our digital infrastructure to enable increased performance for our customers,” commented Jay Anderson, FiberLight’s CTO and chief engineer. “Our new route between Charlotte and Atlanta represents a significant development for FiberLight and demonstrates how we are delivering additional uptime, resiliency, and diversity with an industry-leading 400-Gbps Ethernet wavelength service offering. Our speed to market with this route delivers quick turnup options for our customers, along with improved efficiencies and low-latency connectivity that meet the demands of cloud-based businesses.”
“Over the last 20 years, we have developed a highly connected ecosystem of partners in the Southeast that now offers easy access to a vast community of solutions,” added Ryan Mallory, COO of Flexential. “We are proud to add FiberLight’s new services in two key locations as part of our expanding ecosystem. As customers seek alternatives to oversubscribed data center markets, Charlotte and Atlanta provide attractive opportunities for Flexential customers to build and grow on our national FlexAnywhere platform.”
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