The new facility – ATL02 – will bring 15MW of additional power capacity to the local market, with the Edge Campus supporting a total of 21MW of capacity once it is fully completed.
The ATL02 facility will include a number of diverse networking options, with the aim of supporting both service provider and enterprise customers looking for services closer to the edge of the network. It will offer services across cloud, content, network and IoT providers.
“Our Edge Data Centers are specifically designed to provide robust power and cooling with the highest levels of reliability, while delivering industry-leading uptime availability for customers,” said Bryan Weeks, general manager for the Southeast at EdgeConneX.
Edge Data Centers host bandwidth intensive and latency sensitive data closer to end-users. The Atlanta-2 EDC will support up to five data halls, according to EdgeConneX, and offer carrier-neutral services. Some of the network partners named by the company include CenturyLink, Cogent, Comcast, Pilot Fiber, Southern Telecom, Crowne Castle, Telia, Charter, Windstream and Zayo.
Megaport is also set to announce a deployment at the Atlanta facility. Atlanta is the new home of ITW for 2019. Services to be offered include IP, lit transport and dark fibre networking solutions. EdgeConneX recently announced an expansion of its Denver facility, also adding Megaport’s SDN to the site.
Weeks added: “By expanding existing Edge facilities and developing them into regional data centre campus environments in markets like Atlanta and Miami, EdgeConneX demonstrates the rapid momentum of the Edge. We will continue to expand our local Edge footprint on a highly distributed global basis to ensure our customers can operate competitively in today’s latency-sensitive, highly proximate, data-driven market.”
