MONTREAL and TORONTO — North American interconnection and hyperscale edge data centre company Cologix announced today its affiliate Metro Optic has partnered with Crosslake Fibre to integrate their networks and service offering “to provide turnkey network infrastructure and low latency fibre solutions to large data users in North America,” according to a press release.
Based in Montreal, Metro Optic is one of Canada’s largest carrier- and data centre-neutral builders and operators of high-capacity fibre networks. The company’s network reaches corporate and wholesale data centres and interconnection locations in the greater Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver areas.
Headquartered in Toronto, Crosslake Fibre is an international network service provider and developer of fibre-optic projects throughout North America and Europe. In Canada, it has points of presence in Toronto and Montreal.
The two companies are already majority owners of Maple Leaf Fibre, a joint venture with Utilities Kingston, that is developing a new fibre-optic cable system between Montreal and Toronto via Kingston, Ont. The Maple Leaf Fibre cable system will have a terrestrial segment between Montreal and Kingston, and a submarine segment through Lake Ontario between Kingston and downtown Toronto, explains the press release. The project is in the advanced stages of development and the cable system is expected to be in service by December 2023.
The partnership announced today will see the two companies “deliver a seamless network solution that offers hyperscale connectivity between Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York,” the press release says.
“The combination of Metro Optic’s strong, local presence in the fastest growing datacentre and interconnection markets in Canada with Crosslake Fibre’s high-speed long-haul network between the U.S. and Canada, creates a unique, one-stop solution for large data users with high performance network requirements,” said Michael Bucheit, general manager of Metro Optic, in the release.
“Crosslake Fibre and Metro Optic have built state-of-the-art digital networks in North America and Europe focused on route diversity, performance and scalability. Reaching our customers in more than 40 critical, local data centres and providing long-haul routes to key international locations is a powerful proposition,” said Mike Cunningham, CEO of Crosslake Fibre.
The companies’ joint service offering “will include diverse high-count dark fibre, 1G to 100G lit services and ultra low-latency options,” the press release says.
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