Netriplex plans to extend its fiber connectivity from its Asheville, NC, datacenter to Washington, DC and beyond.

The initial phase will be a leased OC-192 optical fiber circuit to the network-neutral Equinix facility in Ashburn, Virginia with peering to hundreds of major transit providers.

Netriplex COO, John Thompson, comments: "Most data centers are in major cities, and major cities are high risk for both natural and manmade disasters. Extreme weather hazards can cause loss of power, Internet and vital personnel for even the most 'hardened' data centers in their path. Add in the manmade perils of terrorism (think dirty bomb or EMP bomb), riots, crime, industrial hazards and health epidemics and you can readily see why Netriplex thought 'outside the box' for locating its latest data center in Asheville. Simply put, our unique location between two mountain ranges protects Netriplex's state-of-the-art facility from the risks that threaten most other data centers."

Netriplex CTO Jon Hope said: "This expansion creates greater resiliency and redundancy for customers if there is a major incident in Atlanta, our primary Internet peering point. Now we will have full routing diversity both to the north and to the south. Second, our northward extension opens up access for government and industry point-to-point circuits between the Washington, DC area and our disaster recovery data center in Asheville. This dedicated fiber connection will allow Netriplex customers the most competitively priced and fastest bandwidth available to the northeast, just 15 milliseconds and one router hop for either primary or backup server hosting."

Asheville, North Carolina (25 Most Secure U.S. Places to Live, according a report cited by Netriplex) is also recognized by both government and industry professionals as a highly desirable location for storing electronic data securely and economically the firm said.

Along with The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), both Google and Apple have recently chosen western North Carolina's for new data centers.

Netriplex has a 15,000 sq. ft. SAS70 Type II certified data center in Asheville, NC and data centers in Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, San Jose, Seattle and London, U.K.