Arelion announced a new route from Denver to the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting through Salt Lake City and Reno. The new route leverages the latest open optical line systems and supports multi-vendor transponders and coherent pluggable components to deliver multi-terabit scale capacity, enabling 10G, 100G and 400G Wavelengths deliveries with aggressive lead times for the global carrier’s customers.
Arelion said its network now provides enhanced resilience and flexibility, offering seamless edge connectivity through its fourth cross-country east-to-west coast U.S. route.
“This network investment in Denver, Salt Lake City, Reno and the San Francisco Bay Area is in direct response to our customers’ growing technology demands,” said Wes Cantrall, Head of Sales in North America, Arelion. “We bring additional choices for diversity and high capacity to these regions, enabling us to meet companies’ terabit-scale needs in these evolving markets. Our ongoing commitment to connect growing edge markets across the country is a testament to our dedication to delivering best-in-class services that enable tech business growth in previously underserved regions.”
The new route will go live in late Q2. Further insights into Arelion’s North American network expansion:
- Routing west, Arelion’s new diverse network connects to Denver (Flexential – Centennial and CoreSite – DE1) and Aurora (Flexential).
- The route connects to Flexential sites in Fair Park and Salt Lake City. Additional Salt Lake City sites include EdgeConneX – SLC01 and DataBank – SLC1 and SLC2 in Bluffdale.
- The network continues to Tahoe Reno (Switch – Citadel).
- Additional connectivity is provided to key Bay Area cities, including San Francisco (Digital Realty – SFO10), San Jose (Equinix – SV1), Palo Alto (Equinix – SV8), Santa Clara (CoreSite – SV4) and other colocation sites in the Bay Area.
- With its fourth North American east-to-west coast route, Arelion provides enhanced access to its number one ranked Internet backbone, AS1299, as well as the global carrier’s portfolio of leading IP and optical technology services, including high-speed IP Transit, Cloud Connect, Ethernet and IPX services for service providers, content providers and enterprises.
