Specifically, Crosslake is to land its new system into Equinix’s TR2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Toronto and Equinix’s NY4 IBX in Secaucus, New Jersey.
The Crosslake Fibre network, that went live in October 2019, provides lit and dark fibre services interconnecting Toronto, Secaucus, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. It traverses Lake Ontario from Toronto to New York State utilising a specialised 192 fibre strand submarine cable that is 58km in length. Using current technology, the cable, which is less than 2 inches in diameter, can provide up to several thousand terabits per second of capacity throughput.
"The new network provides physical geographic diversity, the lowest latency performance and ultra-high capacity throughput,” said Mike Cunningham, CEO, Crosslake Fibre. “This backbone internet infrastructure between Equinix data centres benefits content delivery networks, financial customers, gaming ecosystem, payment processing customers and internet download speeds, in addition to being a potential catalyst for economic development."
Equinix was chosen due to the company’s experience in delivering and managing cable landing stations as well as for its access to dense, rich ecosystems of networks, clouds and financial and IT service providers. In addition, Equinix also provides a neutral landing point for subsea cable operators, reducing their cost and time to deploy.
"Crosslake Fibre is a great addition to the list of network service providers available at Equinix and presents further connectivity options to our customer,” added Jim Poole, vice president of business development at Equinix. “By offering direct connectivity to the Crosslake cable system in our New York and Toronto data centres and a new low-latency route between these markets, we are able to continue to support the needs of key global customers looking to leverage interconnection and expand into these important markets."
