Astound Business Solutions has announced completion of a fiber network expansion connecting 111 8th Avenue in New York City to 21715 Filigree Court in Ashburn, Virginia. Astound says the new route is intended to improve scale and resiliency between two major East Coast data center hubs for enterprise, media, and other business customers.

According to Astound, the fiber route spans more than 300 miles and adds 33.6 terabits per second of capacity. It supports wavelengths from 10 gigabits per second to 800 gigabits per second, which Astound says is designed to scale for future high-speed internet and video transport demand.

Astound notes that the route is designed as a lower-latency option between New York and the Ashburn and Washington corridor by avoiding congestion points near Philadelphia and urban areas of New Jersey. The company says this provides a more resilient backbone for mission-critical applications, including large data sets and capacity-intensive media assets, and can also serve as an alternate path and added capacity for large data centers in Ashburn, Washington, DC, and New York City.

“We initiated this expansion specifically to deliver diverse data transport options for enterprise and media customers who increasingly require extensive and reliable connectivity between New York and Washington, D.C.,” said Paul Koss, Astound President, Business Solutions. “By reducing provisioning complexity and leveraging automation, this new route delivers rapid deployment of advanced services and accelerates implementation timelines for commercial entities, all while maximizing efficiency and performance.”

Source: Astound Business Solutions