wiredInUSA April 2018

Directing bandwidth traffic

Lumos Networks Corporation is working on a project that will enable it to route bandwidth traffic from two undersea cables to data centers in Ashburn. Lumos plans to connect its fiber network to a co-location facility operated by Globalinx Data Centers. The Globalinx facility is a short distance from the cable landing stationwhere, later this year, undersea cables will connect Virginia Beach with Spain and Brazil. Once the Lumos network is connected to the Globalinx building it will also be linked to the cable landing station. With that development, explained Timothy GBiltz, Lumos CEO: “Wewill have the ability to route bandwidth traffic from the cable landing station all the way to numerous data centers in Ashburn. It is estimated that 70 percent of total global Internet traffic passes through the Ashburn area.”

Greg Twitt, president of Globalinx, said: “Virginia Beach is becoming the new continental edge, where the subsea networks from around the world can hand-off the international traffic, directly and seamlessly, to terrestrial networks at a Globalinx co-location facility.” The two undersea cables are Marea, jointly owned by Telefonica (Telxius), Microsoft and Facebook, and Brusa, totally owned by Telefonica. Marea was expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2018, with Brusa, which will connect the station with Brazil, expected to begin operating during the second half of 2018. Lumos, which serves markets in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky, has a fiber network of 11,028 route miles.

wiredInUSA - April 2018

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