The wholesale unit of broadband provider Windstream said this week it has entered an alliance with several other broadband companies to extend dark fiber offerings through Richmond.
The company’s Beach Route of dark fiber, which runs from Jacksonville, Florida, to Raleigh, North Carolina, through Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and will extend into Richmond and up to Ashburn through the new partnership.
The other companies involved in the extension from Raleigh include Chantilly’s Mid-Atlantic Broadband, Portland, Maine’s Tilson Infrastructure and Sterling’s SummitIG.
Little Rock, Arkansas-based Windstream says its Beach Route offers lower latency, ideal for cloud services and content delivery providers linking the Research Triangle region of North Carolina to aerospace hubs in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, and with access to subsea cables at two cable landing stations.
The 315-mile extension to Ashburn through Richmond provides customers with a more seamless networking experience, the company said, eliminating the need for multivendor route solutions. Windstream said it will manage all aspects of the network.
Mid-Atlantic Broadband offers unique fiber routes and southern entry into the QTS Richmond Data Center. Tilson said it will offer access to unique routes on Interstate 95 from the South Carolina to Virginia borders and the east-west U.S. 70 and U.S. 74 routes that ultimately feed data centers in Virginia. SummitIG has 900 miles of dark fiber infrastructure in Virginia and Ohio.