YORK, PA — United Fiber and Data (UFD), a fibre-optic network provider in the northeastern United States, announced today Canadian telecom carrier Eastlink and an unnamed global data centre provider are now using UFD’s fibre backbone in the U.S.
Eastlink and the other data centre company “are now leveraging UFD’s wholly owned dark fiber assets and regen/ILA sites on its diverse long-haul fiber backbone that spans more than 400 miles and sits outside the Mid-Atlantic I-95 corridor,” reads a UFD press release.
UFD’s regen/ILA sites “are strategically placed along UFD’s unique fiber optic network designed to avoid congestion and single points of failure on the I-95 corridor from northern New Jersey to Ashburn, Virginia, the data center capital of the world,” the release says.
“UFD’s unique and geographically diverse fiber network provides us the flexibility to manage increasing capacity demands over time and better reach our end users without interruption,” said Steve Irvine, Eastlink’s senior vice-president of engineering and CTO, in the press release.
Christopher Lodge, UFD’s COO and interim CEO, added: “Our plug-and-play regen sites along our route are ideal for telecom, content, data center and hosting providers to easily on-ramp onto UFD’s diverse and robust long-haul network that links the Greater New York City metro area to Northern Virginia.”
“UFD’s critical and geographically diverse path offers the high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity designed to prevent costly downtime from a network disruption on the I-95 leg,” Lodge said.
