Windstream Wholesale expands network footprint into Oregon’s ‘Silicon Forest’
Windstream Wholesale announced the connection of its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the Hillsboro, OR, cable landing station. Known as the “Silicon Forest,” Hillsboro boasts more than a dozen subsea cables terminating to the surrounding region and is home to numerous high-tech companies. This link now provides diverse routes from both Hillsboro and Portland markets to nationwide data centers.
“The new fiber route provides additional network diversity for enterprises and service providers in Hillsboro,” says Tony Bishop, senior vice president of platform, growth, and marketing at Digital Reality, which operates one of Hillsboro’s data centers. “It complements our plan to implement a data-centric architecture that supports the performance needed for customers to overcome data gravity challenges and scale digital business at key centers of data exchange.”
Windstream’s Hillsboro expansion is part of an ongoing initiative to provide a set of high-bandwidth wide area network advantages, including low-latency transport, to major data and international hubs across the U.S.
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