Submarine cable provider Hibernia Atlantic has partnered with Equinix to expand its global financial network into the Equinix New York-2 and New York-4 international business exchange data centers in Secaucus, New Jersey.

This expansion drives Hibernia Atlantic's redundancy within the New York metro area and reinforces the company's commitment to provide reliable connectivity to its financial customers, bypassing major congestion points located within major metro city centers, it said.

This link into Equinix financial eXchange, a neutral electronic marketplace of active market participants located in the NY2 and NY4 centers, is also a much-desired route for financial exchange traffic, moving from Chicago to Secaucus (bypassingManhattan when and if necessary) and across the Atlantic Ocean to Slough, UK (bypassing London when and if necessary as well).

With five different dark fiber providers across New York metro as well as 13 network Points of Presence (PoPs) now in the New York metro region, Hibernia's global financial network is one of the most resilient, reliable and fastest best-of-breed networks serving the financial community in the metropolitan area and beyond, it said.

Hibernia's network is built upon 24,000 Kilometers of fiber optic cable, is layered over Hibernia Atlantic's diverse fiber optic network that reaches key financial cities including Toronto,Montreal, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Stamford, Weehawken, Secaucus,Newark, White Plains, New York, Frankfurt, Reading and London.

"Hibernia's new Secaucus PoPs are based in Equinix's high quality, advanced design facilities that offer financial customers a full range of scalable services, including colocation, interconnection, support and monitoring. The new PoPs extend Hibernia's GFN into Equinix Financial eXchange in the NY2 and NY4 centers," said John Knuff, director, Business Development for Equinix.