Metro Transport / Interconnect

TRANSPORT AND INTERCONNECT OPTIONS BETWEEN DATA CENTERS AND METROS

With data centers clustered in underserved tier-two markets, DataBank offers you a unique opportunity to geographically diversify your IT infrastructure and workloads for greater resilience and put them closer to users at the edge for higher performance. In order to keep your infrastructure and workloads in those facilities connected, DataBank provides a range of inter- and intra-metro networking options:

• Metro Fiber Rings – Dark fiber metro rings lit with dense wavelength division multiplexing to provide 1G to 100G capacity across our metros and between data centers.
• Layer 2/3 Transport – Layer 2 Ethernet and Layer 3 transport and VPNs provide connectivity between workloads in different data center facilities.
• MPLS Backbone – nationwide MPLS backbone allow your business a virtual presence at every carrier hotel and enables the private dedicated connectivity necessary for disaster recovery and backups.

DataBank’s network is monitored around-the-clock to ensure uptime and prevent packet errors and our Metro Transport/Interconnect services are tuned to provide the high availability and throughput you need to support your most bandwidth-intensive applications including site-to-site data replication, disaster recovery and primary and secondary interconnection.