A map from AboveNet's website showing its data center connections around Philadelphia
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Connectivity solutions provider AboveNet (www.above.net) announced on Thursday it is now connected to the Philadelphia Technology Park (www.philadelphiatechnologypark.com), enabling data center customers access to its network.
This announcment comes nearly a month after the launch of AboveNet’s sales campaign focused on extending its network reach to enterprises and carriers in leading US metro markets.
The private, optical network connects Philadelphia to key business hubs in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
The Philadephia Technology Park is one of the Mid-Atlantic’s premier carrier-neutral data centers, according to AboveNet.
“Businesses, universities and healthcare providers continue to move mission-critical applications to data centers to handle data intensive applications such as cloud computing, multimedia transfers, data replication and disaster recovery,” Philadelphia Technology Park president Corey Blanton said in a statement. “We are pleased to connect to AboveNet’s high performance network to offer the bandwidth services and routes to meet the Philadelphia Technology Park’s communications needs.”
AboveNet’s infrastructure includes more than 2.3 million fiber miles, spanning approximately 12,000 route miles.
Philadelphia Technology Park is also an AboveNet IP POP so clients can use its Tier 1 IP service at affordable rates.
“At AboveNet, we focus exclusively on the needs of the high bandwidth customer, so our network in the Philadelphia and New York metro areas is specifically engineered to deliver fast, dedicated, secure connectivity to critical business locations,” said Matt Johns, director of Mid-Atlantic sales at AboveNet. “The Philadelphia Technology Park is a key colocation facility to connect up to our network, and we look forward to serving the enterprise and carrier customers in this important market.”
Located within the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia Technology Park is a 25,700 square foot colocation data center owned by Enterprise Technology Parks.
In 2010, AboveNet announced plans to expand its European broadband network and launched a campaign enabling law firms to connect to business hubs and clients in the US and European metro markets.
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