Windstream Wholesale announced the following 400G wave service routes:
- Ashburn, Va., to Chicago, Denver, San Jose and Los Angeles
- Atlanta to Dallas, Phoenix, San Jose and Los Angeles
- Seattle to Portland, San Jose and Los Angeles
- Chicago to Dallas and Atlanta
“The bandwidth demands facing large enterprise and hyperscale customers are expanding and evolving rapidly as the transition to cloud services and cloud computing accelerates, and Windstream Wholesale is enhancing our long-haul network to ensure we meet their needs,” said Joe Scattareggia, chief revenue officer of Windstream Wholesale. “We are cascading a phased approach that gives our customers time to plan as we continue to invest and enable 400G services across our entire core long-haul network.”
Windstream Wholesale is also taking orders now for the following routes, which will be 400G capable in the second half of 2022:
- Chicago to Atlanta and Miami
- Chicago to Newark and New York City
- Atlanta to Ashburn, Newark and New York City
- McAllen, Texas; to Dallas, Memphis, Ashburn and New York City
The company will begin accepting orders for the third phase of its 400G expansion starting in the third quarter of 2022.
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