TORONTO and SECAUCUS, N.J. – Crosslake Fibre announced Tuesday its new fibre-optic cable spanning from Toronto to New York through Lake Ontario is complete and has entered commercial service.
The “ultra-low latency route connects Toronto's largest carrier hotels, Equinix TR2 at 45 Parliament Street and 151 Front Street West, to Equinix NY4 in Secaucus, New Jersey with multiple extensions to various points-of-presence in both cities. Crosslake Fibre provides lit and dark fiber services interconnecting Toronto, Secaucus, NJ and Buffalo, NY using the route,” reads the company press release.
The sub-lake cable which is less than two inches in diameter utilizes a specialized 192 fiber strand submarine cable which is 36 miles (58 km) in length, reads the release. Using current technology, it can provide up to several thousand terabits per second of capacity throughput.
"The new network provides the lowest latency performance, physical geographic diversity, and ultra-high capacity throughput for customers," said Mike Cunningham, CEO. "This backbone Internet infrastructure benefits the financial markets, data centers, content delivery networks, the gaming eco-system, payment processing, and Internet download speeds, in addition to being a catalyst for economic development."
“For the first time, this new network route delivers sub 9ms RTD performance between these core markets. Crosslake's 'Velocity' service portfolio offers the financial community a number of options to enhance their connectivity to these important markets,” added Fergus Innes, SVP, in the release.
Crosslake Fibre is backed by middle-market private equity firm Tiger Infrastructure Partners.
