Ziply is banking on the opportunity to be a key wholesale provider to the Pacific Northwest’s data center market.

With Northern Link Route complete, the service provider has positioned itself in Washington State’s data center market by completing two key fiber projects in Quincy and Lynnwood, Washington. 

Its timing could not be better. The Pacific Northwest has become a major regional hub driven by cloud and artificial intelligence demand, with nearly 300 operating facilities, yet it faces tightening regulatory moratoria and power grid constraints.

The new Quincy, Washington fiber ring establishes a fully redundant fiber loop designed to provide diverse, high-capacity connectivity throughout the Quincy data center market.  

Ziply is also now available as an on-net carrier at Csquare’s Lynnwood data center campus, located at 17300 Hwy 99 in Lynnwood, Washington. 

Chris Gellos, General Manager and Vice President of Commercial Services at Ziply Fiber, said it is seeing growing demand from data centers on its Northern Link Route. 

“Ziply Fiber operates a number of unique routes,” he said. “Earlier this year, we launched our Northern Link Route, and we've seen just a tremendous amount of demand.” 

He added that its 400G wavelength product continues to gain traction, with terminations in data centers like the Quincy Ring or its own co-location facilities.

“We're selling and installing probably triple the number of 400 gig waves than we did just a year ago,” Gellos said.

And so, it's been extremely popular and in high demand, and those long-haul transport routes are typically connecting data centers to data centers.”

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