Projects & Agreements
Ascent Expands North American Footprint
With Toronto-Waterloo Corridor Data Centre
Ascent has announced it has
strategically expanded its
business presence following
the recent acquisition of a
data centre in the heart of
the second largest innovation
cluster in North America.
The facility, known as
Ascent TOR1 data centre,
is located in Ontario’s
rapidly growing Information
Communication Technology (ICT) Corridor, between Waterloo and Toronto, in the city
of Cambridge. The purpose-built facility and surrounding property enable Ascent to
serve the growing demand for data centre capacity in the world renowned high tech
area of Ontario.
TOR1 features enterprise-grade construction, reliability, efficiency, diverse cloud
connectivity options, significant expansion space and power potential. The existing
building that is approximately 270,000ft 2 sits on a 41-acre parcel with 15 acres of pad ready
expansion ground.
The building is comprised of multiple enterprise class data halls with immediate
availability and 120,000ft 2 of shell warehouse space that has flexible design capabilities,
which can be programmed as required by a tenant, including a high density, fast IT
deployment block design featuring capacity up to 30MW.
The flexibility of the site, combined with Ascent as the provider, allows customers the
ability to lease turnkey, powered shell, build to suit with autonomous designs, or even
design build with purchase opportunities as a few of the possible scenarios.
For further information visit: www.ascent-corp.com
Digital Realty Brings AWS Direct Connect
to Fast-Growing Atlanta Metro Area
Digital Realty has announced the availability of AWS Direct Connect at its ATL1 and
ATL2 data centre facilities in downtown Atlanta. AWS Direct Connect makes it easy
for businesses to establish a dedicated network connection from their premises to
AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, users can establish private connectivity between
AWS and their data centre, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases
can reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more
consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.
Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs, AWS Direct Connect can be partitioned
into multiple virtual interfaces. This allows users to use the same connection to
access public resources such as objects stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3) using public IP address space, and private resources such as Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running within an Amazon Virtual
Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using private IP space, while maintaining network
separation between the public and private environments. Virtual interfaces can be
reconfigured at any time to meet users’ changing needs.
For further information visit: www.digitalrealty.com
Dockland
Data Centre
Limited Deploys
Cataleya’s Orchid
One to Offer a
Comprehensive
Service
Enablement
Solution
Cataleya has been selected by
Dockland Data Centre Limited
(DDCL), a Tier 2-3 modern data
centre facility, to deploy its
next-generation session border
controller (SBC) Orchid One. DDCL
will use Orchid One to transform
its Switch Partition service into a
service enablement solution for
delivering a high performance
switching environment.
Orchid One enables DDCL to
build out its Platform as a Service
(PaaS) offering and provide its
customers with new network
functions and critical visibility
into network performance.
With access to a simple web-
based management and real-
time reporting platform, DDCL
customers are able to centrally
configure their SLA terms and
alarms in each interconnect.
Orchid One was specifically
designed to address the need
for end-to-end quality of service
and experience in IP networks.
Its capacity of up to 100,000
sessions per 2RU allows DDCL to
reduce its equipment footprint
and benefit from significant
power savings. All of these, help
DDCL to offer its customers a
switching solution that provides
them with the stability they
need to deliver advanced
communications services.
For further information visit:
www.cataleya.com
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