Telia Carrier today announced that it has extended the reach of its global backbone by adding a new fiber-route between New York City and Chicago. The new express route, along with extra fiber in the New York metro area, further diversifies the wholesale carrier’s network and provides enhanced 100G+ service options to carriers, content and cloud providers in New York, Chicago and the United States as a whole.<\/p>\n
With the growth of the Internet of Things, enterprise cloud, on-demand streaming and live online gaming, service providers, cloud providers and content delivery networks are consistently driving traffic requirements up. The diversity of Telia Carrier\u2019s offerings enables the wholesale carrier to add routing options and points of presence (PoPs) in the New Jersey\/New York region, shortening the network path and improving latency. Additionally, the global wholesale carrier uses the latest in next-generation, coherent 100G-ready equipment and modulation formats to provide fast delivery and service turn-up, optimizing the overall customer experience. The new route also improves the efficiency of existing routes, including New York – San Francisco and New York – Denver.<\/p>\n
“Telia Carrier prides itself on customer centricity and our network is designed to support the needs of our customers, bringing tangible \u2018Power to the User,\u2019 said Stephen Hartman, head of sales, North Americas Region at Telia Carrier. \u201cBy shortening the route from Chicago to New York, we can meet burgeoning market demand for high capacity, lower latency services throughout the region. Moreover, we are able improve transport to the West Coast and stay ahead of ever-increasing backbone traffic requirements\u201d<\/p>\n
Telia Carrier\u2019s global fiber backbone has grown organically, without acquisitions, and is the first to be 100G-enabled in both Europe and North America. It was also the first network to successfully transmit 1 Tb\/s on its US network. According to Dyn Research\u2019s global backbone rankings, AS1299, Telia Carrier\u2019s global IP backbone, is currently ranked top-two. Telia Carrier\u2019s rapid growth and ascension through the rankings was recently highlighted in Dyn\u2019s \u2018Baker\u2019s Dozen, 2015 edition\u2019 report. The company enables worldwide connectivity by connecting more than 220 Points of Presence (PoPs) across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East including over 70 PoPs in North America alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Telia Carrier today announced that it has extended the reach of its global backbone by adding a new fiber-route between New York City and Chicago. The new express route, along with extra fiber in the New York metro area, further diversifies the wholesale carrier’s network and provides enhanced 100G+ service options to carriers, content and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"1","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_extra_hide_author_box":"1","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecom","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n