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Ashburn, located at the heart of the Washington metropolitan area, hosts one of the world’s largest concentrations of data centres, known as Data Center Alley. This corridor aggregates hyperscale cloud infrastructure and enterprise workloads within a dense interconnection hub, impacting telcos and wholesale customers.
By reinforcing these links between landing stations and data centre clusters, Colt strengthens the connection between subsea systems and terrestrial backbones.
Resilience and routing options
Colt’s expansion increases its presence in the US to four connected cable landing stations on the east coast, with on-net options across 10 transatlantic subsea cable systems. Direct control supports performance, resilience and routing flexibility across international routes where disruption and maintenance can impact traffic flows.
The company is introducing diverse, high-capacity transatlantic routing options designed to provide resilience and back-up. Route diversity reduces the risk of disruption by ensuring traffic reroutes in the event of cable faults or maintenance. Where AI workloads increase capacity requirements and enterprises scale digital infrastructure, this resilience supports consistent connectivity across the Atlantic.
End-to-end connectivity across Colt’s infrastructure between the US and Europe now includes new 100G and 400G wave options. These options enable businesses to scale bandwidth in line with AI model training and large data transfers without deploying additional circuits, supporting high performance and energy efficient connectivity across subsea and terrestrial networks.