Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG), based in Sunnyvale, a fast growing pure-play metro dark fiber provider, has expanded its connectivity solutions in the data center-rich Silicon Valley market. The company recently completed a unique fiber route, that is, diverse from other fiber carrier routes, to data center campuses in South San Jose.
The 100 percent underground fiber optic network runs from Santa Clara to the Great Oaks area in South San Jose. This route provides data centers and their customers with “reliable, secure and fast” connectivity between data centers or from data centers to corporate campuses and extends connectivity to the company’s larger San Francisco Bay Area network that has over 30 on-net data centers.
The Silicon Valley data center market remains one of the most active in the U.S., where the new data center construction pipeline exceeds an estimated 85 MW of capacity, second only to Northern Virginia. The company sees robust demand for data transport over fiber as the demand for data center services continues to rise in Silicon Valley.
“The Silicon Valley area continues to be a hub for technology companies, and the advancements they’re creating require high quality networks that emphasize low signal loss and latency while maximizing route diversity,” says Jim Nolte, Bandwidth IG CEO. “Our new dark fiber route achieves those goals, in fact the first test results showed signal loss roughly 40 percent below a standard loss budget.”
BandwidthIG is continuing its network expansion with construction on two more diverse paths from Great Oaks. By the end of 2022, the network will traverse more than 165 route-miles covering the Northern California data center concentrations and corporate campuses in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas and San Jose.
Bandwidth IG’s all-underground metro dark fiber networks serve mission critical data centers, hyperscalers and enterprises in three key markets around the country – the San Francisco Bay Area (160+ route miles and 50 data centers), Greater Portland (10+ route miles and 14 data centers), and Greater Atlanta (60+ route miles and six data centers).
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