Astound Business Solutions amplifies data center reach with East Coast fiber route

Astound Business Solutions is addressing the data center market’s demand for optical connectivity with a new fiber route that extends connectivity between New York City and data centers in the Washington, DC and Virginia area. 

The new route will provide connectivity from the 111 Eighth Avenue data center in New York City to the 21715 Filigree Court site in Ashburn, Virginia — two of the nation’s most critical data hubs.

Spanning over 300 miles, the route introduces 33.6 terabits per second of additional capacity across the East Coast.

Customers who need to engineer their networks to support ultra-high-speed connectivity and capacity can access wavelengths ranging from 10G to 800G, enabling scalability for current and future demands.

“We initiated this expansion specifically to deliver diverse data transport options for enterprise and media customers who increasingly require extensive and reliable connectivity between New York and Washington, D.C.,” said Paul Koss, Astound’s new President of business sales.  

Focus on latency, resiliency

Astounds new fiber path is designed to deliver a lower-latency option for services between New York and the Ashburn/Washington corridor by avoiding traditional congestion points near Philadelphia and urban areas of New Jersey.

This provides enterprises and media networks with a faster, more resilient backbone for mission-critical applications, including large datasets and capacity-intensive media assets.

Besides Astound’s direct customers, this benefits the broader ecosystem by providing additional capacity and an alternate route for large data centers in Ashburn, Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Enhancing business services leadership

Just as Astound finalizes this route, it is enhancing its sales leadership by promoting Koss as president of Astound Business Solutions sales.

In this role, Koss will lead all sales channels and sales engineering functions for Astound Business Solutions across the United States, with a focus on helping customers solve complex network challenges through custom-built solutions.

Koss previously served as Senior Vice President of Business Solutions at Astound, where he oversaw commercial strategy and helped expand the company’s presence in key markets, including subsea, data center, media, and enterprise connectivity.

He has over two decades of experience building and operating networks and a strong track record of developing high-performing teams.

Earlier, he led centralized operations and later commercial operations at Wave, which ultimately became part of Astound.

Patrick Knorr, Chief Commercial Officer for Astound Business Solutions, said Koss’s “promotion to President of Sales reflects both his impact on our growth to date and our confidence in his ability to guide our commercial fiber business to new heights.”

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