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Bell and FirstLight to offer new 400G wavelength data routes between Secaucus, NJ, Toronto and Montreal

MONTREAL and SECAUCUS, N.J. – Bell announced Tuesday, in partnership with Albany, N.Y.-based FirstLight Fiber, it will soon offer unique wavelength data routes with speeds up to 400G (400 Gbps) enabling triple redundancy (or so-called triversity) between Secaucus, N.J., Toronto and Montreal, starting in the first quarter of 2024. Launched by Bell in April 2021, 400G wavelength technology “delivers significantly increased speeds and the capacity required by large cloud and data centre providers, offering reliable, secure fibre-optic networks for the transport of voice, data, and video,” reads a Bell press release. Adding triversity to its network capabilities enables Bell to reliably...