Consolidated Communications fiber raises Fibertown Data Centers' resiliency and diversity

The new dedicated connection will enable the data center provider to accommodate mission-critical workloads.
Sept. 2, 2025
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Key Highlights

  • Consolidated’s fiber expansion enhances Fibertown’s connectivity, supporting mission-critical workloads with high-speed, low-latency options.
  • The network provides diverse routes with multiple upstream ISPs, improving redundancy, reducing hop count, and lowering latency.
  • Fibertown benefits from Consolidated’s focus on resiliency and uptime, achieving a 100% SLA for power, cooling, and connectivity.
  • Consolidated’s platform includes high-capacity options like 100G/400G wavelengths and low-latency routes, addressing evolving data center needs.
  • The Construction-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering allows data centers to outsource network infrastructure buildout, ensuring scalable and reliable connectivity.
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Consolidated Communications has brought its fiber network connectivity to Fibertown Data Center’s Houston facility, illustrating the service provider’s ongoing efforts to build custom connectivity solutions for the data center industry.  

This expansion delivers high-speed connectivity to power Fibertown’s mission-critical, low-latency workloads for government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and small businesses alike.  

The integration of Consolidated’s fiber network further enhances Fibertown’s connectivity capabilities, including its zero-downtime service agreements.

Consolidated, which continues to expand its fiber network to more data centers in its markets, complements Fibertown’s purpose-built environment serving government and mission-critical enterprise functions.

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Matt Kriger, strategic client success manager for Fibertown.
Matt Kriger, strategic client success manager for Fibertown.

Focus on diversity, resiliency

What Consolidated brings to the table is its unique routes that will drive more diversity and resiliency for Fibertown’s enterprise customers.  

Providing network diversity has been a key focus for Fibertown, which offers multi-redundant connectivity. This connectivity includes 6 upstream ISPs with diverse points of entry and directly peers with all major cities within the Texas triangle, resulting in what the data center provider said is improved redundancy, reduced hop count, and lower latency.

Consolidated’s newly designed fiber connectivity also brings an enhanced level of resilience to Fibertown’s infrastructure, enabling new and existing tenants to achieve the latency, diversity and redundancy requirements of today’s data center service.

Matt Kriger, strategic client success manager for Fibertown, said the partnership with Consolidated helps it achieve “100% uptime SLA for power, cooling, and connectivity.” 

Responding to data center demands

As the data center industry’s needs continue to evolve, Consolidated has responded by expanding its platform and delivering high-capacity network options for Data Center Interconnect (DCI).

In April, Consolidated expanded its fiber network across major data center hubs. Offering a platform that delivers Ethernet and optical wavelengths, Consolidated’s fiber footprint serves data centers across the Upper Midwest, Texas, Northern California, and its newest unique route connecting Montreal and Boston.  

Consolidated offers various options, including dark fiber, Ethernet, 100G/400G DWDM wavelengths, Unique/Low-Latency routes, and Construction as a Service (CaaS). These expansions enhance network diversity, lower latency, and increase bandwidth capacity, ensuring seamless data transfer and operational continuity for businesses and service providers. 

Consolidated is also addressing the data center market with its Construction-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution. CaaS allows businesses to outsource the construction and management of their network infrastructure, particularly for data center connectivity. It has geared CaaS towards the needs of data centers, which often require high-bandwidth, low-latency, and reliable connections. Data center customers can scale their network capacity up or down according to their business needs. 

Consolidated said that emerging demands from hyperscalers, which will put campuses up, want custom networks dedicated to what they're doing.

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Fibertown has well-established a presence in the growing Houston data center market.
Fibertown has well-established a presence in the growing Houston data center market.

Fibertown, which provides two strategically located data centers residing outside of the FEMA 500-year floodplain and storm impact zones, is an example of the types of data center provider clients that are a good fit for Consolidated’s ongoing fiber build and consultative approach.

While Consolidated is only one of many carriers present at Fibertown’s data center, its ability to offer redundant fiber solutions will likely be seen as a proof point by other data center providers looking at new connectivity options.   

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