Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Arelion expands its U.S. Gulf Coast network

Tuesday, May 14, 2024    

Arelion launched two multi-terabit capacity, low-latency routes from Jacksonville, FL to Atlanta, GA and from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, as well as an overbuild from Miami along Florida’s west coast up to Atlanta. These routes are poised to serve Atlanta’s growing data center market and the increasing demands of AI and machine learning applications, with Atlanta ranking as the sixth largest market for commissioned data center power. Additionally, these routes seamlessly connect to Arelion’s diverse suburban ring, enhancing metro connectivity and meeting the high-capacity bandwidth needs of Atlanta’s thriving regional technology markets.

Arelion's new routes offer fully diverse connectivity services between Jacksonville and Atlanta via two direct paths. These routes bolster Arelion’s ability to serve local traffic and support subsea traffic from the Caribbean, Central America, and South America through Jacksonville's subsea cable landings, continuing the global Internet carrier’s Gulf Coast network expansion.

Arelion said it is leveraging the latest generation open optical line systems supporting C+L Band, sixth-generation coherent optics, and multi-vendor 400G wave capabilities.

Highlights: 

  • The new routes run from Jacksonville (Cologix-JAX1) to Atlanta (Equinix-AT1) and from Jacksonville (Cologix-JAX1) to Tallahassee (EdgeConnex-TAL01).
  • The overbuild route enhances capacity and meshing from Atlanta (Digital Realty-ATL14) to Tallahassee (EdgeConnex-TAL01), continuing via Tampa (365 Data Centers) down to Miami (Equinix-MI1).
  • Additional metro sites in Jacksonville include Telxius CLS and EdgeConnex.
  • Tallahassee is a new market for Arelion, providing a local edge Point-of-Presence (PoP) and meshing/routing flexibility in the region.
  • Additional metro sites in Tampa include the recently announced Flexential Tampa - North site.
  • Arelion now has four diverse route options into Jacksonville

“These new investments in Georgia and Florida allow Arelion to serve the immense demand for reliable connectivity services and tremendous capacity amid Atlanta’s data center boom,” said Art Kazmierczak, Director of Strategic Sales and Network Development at Arelion. “By providing additional meshing and diversity into Atlanta, we can serve the connectivity requirements of local enterprises while supporting subsea traffic from Jacksonville and other Florida edge markets and sea cable landings, enabling low-latency cloud, content and AI/ML delivery across diverse industries.”