Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier taps United Fiber & Data for U.S. 100G optical wavelength services
Fiber-optic network services provider United Fiber & Data (UFD) says it will supply 100G optical wavelength services to Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier, the wholesale division of Deutsche Telekom. The wavelength services will traverse a route outside the Mid-Atlantic I-95 corridor from northern New Jersey to Ashburn, VA.
Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier will use the services to offer its customers connectivity on a path other than the more highly trafficked routes in the region. The service provider’s new PoP at 165 Halsey Street in Newark, and its proximity to the cable landing stations on Long Island and New Jersey, provides customers with diverse low-latency access into Deutsche Telekom’s European footprint for all its services including local access in Central and Eastern Europe. UFD has a connection into the Halsey Street facility as well (see "United Fiber & Data completes network engineering for metro New York river crossings")
“Deutsche Telekom was looking for a scalable solution that could be easily deployed as we expand our geographic diversity and bandwidth capacity within our network footprint in the northeastern United States, where we are expanding our services into 165 Halsey Street in Newark, NJ,” commented Norbert Laux, CTO and vice president of network infrastructure at Deutsche Telekom North America. “The new Halsey Network PoP gives our customers an additional location to connect to our service portfolio including IP transport, peering and transit, cloud access and voice and mobile services. UFD’s reliable, secure, and diverse network is, therefore, the perfect fit to meet our demands.”
“UFD’s fully managed optical wavelength services along our unique and diverse route give our customers greater flexibility to manage their data control, security, speed, and increasing capacity demands over time,” added Christopher Lodge, COO and interim CEO of UFD. “Our innovative, diverse regional connectivity between key markets meets the evolving network needs of customers with UFD’s robust, first-class fiber infrastructure and optical networking solutions.”
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