CenturyLink has announced that it has connected to five additional CyrusOne data centers, which now brings its fiber network’s total length to 250,000 miles. Its international transport network is now 300,000 miles.
“We’re proud and excited to welcome CenturyLink’s fiber infrastructure in a total of 12 out of the 29 CyrusOne data centers in the U.S.,” CyrusOne vice president and general manager of interconnection Josh Snowhorn said in a statement. “CenturyLink’s increased connectivity with our data center facilities means that CyrusOne’s enterprise customers have another top-tier network to choose as their primary or backup data transport solution.”
By early 2016, CenturyLink’s fiber network will be connected within CyrusOne’s Austin III, downtown Cincinnati, Houston West III, San Antonio II and Sterling, Va., data centers. The company’s fiber network is already connected to CyrusOne’s Austin Met II, Austin I, Carrollton, Texas, Chandler, Ariz., Houston Galleria, Houston West and Lewisville data centers.
“With a direct connection to CenturyLink’s network, a business becomes connected to nearly 300 data centers, including more than 60 facilities where CenturyLink provides IT services, and more than 40,000 multi-tenant unit office buildings,” CenturyLink director of network product management Eric Barrett said in a statement. “We’re pleased to welcome CyrusOne and its customers to CenturyLink’s growing ecosystem of interconnected data centers and the end-to-end suite of services we offer to help fulfill a customer’s workload requirements.”