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Customers of a Terremark data center in the Washington, D.C., area had their selection of carriers expanded by nine, following completion of a new fiber network that connects the facility to a Northern Virginia ring of a large optical transport provider.
FiberLight, whose 500,000-mile network spans multiple states across the U.S., including primary markets such as Washington, D.C., Dallas, Texas, and Miami, Fla., has connected Terremark’s NAP of the Capital Region (NCR) to its eight-ring network in the Washington market.
“The completion of FiberLight’s network enhances our ability to provide world-class physical infrastructure and diverse connectivity to tour federal government and enterprise customers,” Terremark spokesman Xavier Gonzalez said.
The data center’s customers will now have access to a total of 15 carriers, according to a Terremark statement.
The facility opened in June, 2008, on the company’s 30-acre campus in Culpeper, Va. It was the first of five separate data centers the property can accommodate. Its sellable floor area is 50,000 square feet and the future four will have the same amount of space.
“It’s (built to) a very high standard for communications,” Gonzalez said. “We’ve built that facility with the federal customers in mind.”
He said the facility does currently provide service to one or more federal agencies but declined to specify which ones.
Terremark started work on the second data center on the Culpeper campus in January. It is scheduled to come online in the first quarter of 2010.
The company operates a total of 11 data centers in seven countries. Its flagship facility – NAP of the Americas – is in Miami, Fla. NCR is its second main.
Among Terremark’s other locations are California’s Silicon Valley (NAP West), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Spain and Netherlands.
Culpeper facility is first of five Terremark plans to develop on the property
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