Phoenix ONE, the huge (530K square feet) new data center facility built by i/o Datacenters, continues to rack up independent fiber connections. Yesterday both Cox Business [1] and Level 3 [2] announced they have brought the facility on-net. Cox and Level 3 will join Qwest and AGL Networks, and others will likely show up as well if they haven’t quietly done so already. You just can’t ignore a facility of this size in an artificially constricted market for colocation space like this one. Phoenix ONE just officially opened in late June [3], but the traction seems to be there.
That Level 3 would be in the mix sooner or later was obvious, as they have a substantial metro footprint in Phoenix, never met a datacenter they didn’t want to hook up, and I think their fiber goes right by the place. But Cox Business? I have so little information about the metro fiber businesses of cable companies. Of course when they have a separately run division of course, like Cablevision’s Optimum Lightpath or RCN Metro, I do manage to keep up with them. But as for Comcast, Cox, and TW Cable, the details are scarce. I have heard that Cox Business is big in places like Omaha, but I don’t have much in the way of numbers. Yet anyway…
3 Comments To "Phoenix ONE Gains Level 3, Cox Pipes"
#1 Comment By Level14er On July 14, 2009 @ 11:29 am
Cox has a tremendous fiber footprint in the Phoenix market. I’ve never seen anything like it.
#2 Comment By Tyler D On July 14, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
Cox has about 10% marketshare in the SMB marketplace in the valley. They do have a large Fiber footprint and have been expanding aggressively. Qwest still dominates the valley with their Geomax and Q-Mo product lines.
#3 Comment By ES On July 14, 2009 @ 11:56 am
Cox does run on level 3’s network.