Wednesday Roundup: Lumen, Flexential, Harbor Link, Ripple Fiber

Four interesting network items from around the US:

Lumen Technologies has won a high profile customer in the sports vertical, specifically in Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees will be leveraging Lumen’s infrastructure in connecting both Yankee Stadium and the company’s facilities down in Tampa, Florida. The Yankees have moved their data center out of the stadium itself and into a hurricane-proof facility in Tampa. Lumen is using two 100Gbps fiber paths between NYC and Tampa, with automatic failover.

Flexential has upgraded its private network backbone to 400Gbps. The data center operator’s connectivity upgrade will span 15 data centers, specifically those in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, and Portland/Hillsboro. It will enable them to offer customers up to 100Gbps on a single port, with burstable options, through which they will be able to access other networks as well as the major cloud providers without going through the public internet.

Harbor Link has been busy in the DC metro area. The baltimore-based infrastructure provider has expanded its underground fiber infrastructure into CoreSite’s DC2 facility in Washington DC. They will also be extending support out to Coresite’s VA1, VA2, and VA3 facilities in northern Virginia.

And Ripple Fiber has polished off one of its buildouts on the Atlantic seaboard. Their expansion through parts of the Outer Banks is now complete, with access available to 20K homes and businesses in Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores, Kill Devil Hills, and Corolla. They started on this project 2.5 years ago and spent some $20M on it. There are additional opportunities on tap in Corolla going forward.

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