Storage and information management service provider Iron Mountain has deployed software-defined networking (SDN) technology to overcome a technical limitation associated with legacy fiber cross connects.

Iron Mountain said by deploying the technology it will eliminate a tangled messes of cables and make the addition or movement of connections clean and easy.

By utilizing SDN the company can allow multiple traffic types to be distributed throughout the data center in a redundant fashion on a fiber ring network.

Iron Mountain said this approach will help organizations reduce hardware costs, accelerate provisioning, protect against fiber cuts and easily transport bandwidth on demand across the network.

Iron Mountain has also expanded its data center services portfolio with its Total Network Services - aiming to provide high-quality, low-cost connectivity to enterprise data center customers.

The Total Network Service portfolio will support a variety of managed services including:
- 10G and 1G protected Ethernet transport to colocation facilities
- Managed carrier services                                                               
- Internet services, including high-speed 10G connectivity via border gateway protocol multi-homing
- End-to-end connectivity for national and international Ethernet transport between data centers
- Dark fiber connectivity between in-metro customer and data center sites