Flexential upgraded its private network backbone to 400 Gbps across various major US metro markets.
The upgrade spans 15 existing Flexential data centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Oregon. Flexential framed the expansion as meeting growing demand in AI training and inference, mirroring network expansions from the likes of Lumen. Flexential customers will leap from legacy 10 Gbps capacity to 100 Gbps on a single port, including burstable options to increase capacity as and when needed.
Flexential Fabric interconnect service customers can "provision additional capacity in less than 90 minutes without traditional order tickets or extended deployment cycles." Those using hyperscale services can leverage dedicated throughput, thus bypassing more congested public peering points.
Flexential also touted connectivity for its FlexAnywhere Platform, which recently saw integration of its Interconnection Mesh with its Flexential Fabric network fabric offering, as well as Lumen's network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform.
The network upgrade was delivered through the fabric service, which will see unspecified new services, streamlined IP migration capabilities, and additional features with the expansion.
The firm noted that additional markets will receive the 400 Gbps upgrade early next year. Its portfolio also includes locations in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Cincinnati; Las Vegas; Louisville, Kentucky; Minneapolis; Nashville, Tennessee; Phoenix; Salt Lake City; and Tampa, Florida. It also has facilities under construction in Colorado.
Flexential's Atlanta footprint will see expansion with its fifth data center to date in the region, due to go live in 2028; while a sixth data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, is under construction and set to join its Portland facilities in the state.
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