Fiber-optic connectivity provider Optical Communications Group has launched its brand new Manhattan Bypass network at a DuPont Fabros data center on the US East Coast. The route connects the facility in Piscataway, New Jersey, to Europe, avoiding congested network routes in Manhattan.

The Manhattan Bypass connects through landing stations in Long Island, where its path travels through Staten Island and Brooklyn. From Long Island the network connects to three transatlantic cables: AC-2/Yellow, Apollo and AC-1.

Hibernia extends financial network to Equinix in Tokyo
International network operator Hibernia Atlantic has extended its financial network to an Equinix data center in Tokyo. The low-latency-network extension gives Tokyo connectivity to Hibernia’s financial-services customers elsewhere around the world, including Chicago, Secaucus, New Jersey, and Slough, UK.

Hibernia also extended its Ethernet service to Equinix data centers in Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Sidera to connect Sabey data centers across US
Sidera Networks announced it would provide fiber connectivity between New York, Seattle and Ashburn, Virginia, data centers by Sabey, a Seattle-based wholesale data center provider.

Sidera start with offering connectivity at Sabey’s latest Intergate.Manhattan data center in New York City. The facility will provide more than 1m sq ft of data center space at full build-out.

Hurricane Electric ups PoP capacity in Kansas
Silicon Valley-based colocation and connectivity-services provider Hurricane Electric (HE) has upgraded the core router at its Point-of-Presence (PoP) at the 1102 Grand data center in Kansas City.

HE said it had experienced 400% growth in the building, which was why it increased the number of fiber paths into the building to three and upgraded the router.

InfoRelay takes Ekonps 360 transport platform
Data center and network connectivity provider InfoRelay has chosen to connect several of its data centers in the Washington, D.C., region using the optical-transport platform by Ekinops 360.

The system gives the provider ability to aggregate multiple service types and rates over fiber. The deployment will start with transport for Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel and 10G LAN services over a high-capacity fiber-optic infrastructure.