Wilcon, a Southern California network infrastructure provider, announced on Nov. 12 plans to bring live a new fiber optic network connecting about 1,000 locations in the first quarter of 2015.
The 3,000 miles of fiber optic cable, set to connect data centers, co-location facilities and enterprise customers, was built in partnership with Ciena, a telecom equipment and services provider, and LightRiver Technologies, which specializes in network transport.
Once activated, the new 100G fiber network will provide Internet, Ethernet and wavelength services between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Wilcon CEO Jon DeLuca called the deployment a “game changer. It was evident that Southern California could no longer count exclusively on the legacy network services available to handle the current bandwidth requirements, let alone their expected growth.”
Clients of the new network include production houses, healthcare providers, research institutions and wireless carriers, according to Wilcon.
“We built a rock-solid, high-capacity, packet-optical network that can easily scale to meet this market’s unique requirements,” Wilcon SVP of sales and marketing Reginald Scales said.
Wilcon provides dense coverage in downtown LA as well as in Burbank, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Long Beach, Irvine and other metro areas.
The company has 44 data centers and co-location facilities on-net plus 17 data centers and interconnection hubs near-net.
Fiber optic cable contains tiny optical fibers, made of glass or plastic, that transmit data at higher speeds than other types of cable.
