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DAY 2
Allied Fiber Inks Deals with GTC, C&W
Allied Fiber, an open-access, integrated,
network-neutral colocation and dark fiber
company, has announced it has signed two
20-year Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) agreements.
The first is with Georgia Transmission Corporation
(GTC), a not-for-profit electric cooperative with more
than 3,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines
and more than 600 substations; and the second with
C&W Networks, one of the largest telecommunica-
tions service providers in the Caribbean region.
For its part, GTC will be running four fiber links
from Jacksonville, Fla., to Atlanta, via Allied Fiber’s
Southeast Route.
The Southeast Route provides GTC with the
security of sufficient bandwidth capacity for the
lifetime of the agreement, with minimal costs to
upgrade and maintain the network overtime,”
the company said.
As a part of the agreement, GTC will gain access
to colocation space from three of Allied Fiber’s
Georgia neutral colocation facilities located in Fargo,
Ashburn and Barnesville, to form the backbone of
its statewide telecommunications network. Through
this network, GTC will provide more reliable commu-
nications for operations of the state’s electrical grid;
at various points along the route, GTC’s electric
membership corporations (EMC) members will be
able to connect to the network via GTC’s transport
services throughout the state. The Southeast Route
also will supply GTC with the ability to connect to its
own electric substations, training facilities, and other
offices through a unified telecom platform.
“Working with GTC gives Allied Fiber the ability to
provide our customers direct, physical layer access to
the GTC network through several of our neutral colo-
cation facilities in Georgia, and allows GTC to expand
their reach and service offerings in the state,” said
Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. “We are excited to
support GTC and help local communities in Georgia
benefit from our collaboration.”
EMCs in Georgia will benefit by not only
connecting to each other, but also to other major
telecom hubs in Atlanta and Jacksonville, said
David Van Winkle, vice president of operations
and maintenance of GTC. “This helps us overcome
the challenge of delivering bandwidth to remote
locations, and assists in meeting the needs of our
partners today and tomorrow, thanks to our part-
nership with Allied Fiber,” he said.
Meanwhile, C&W Networks will utilize coloca-
tion space and dark fiber from the Southeast Route.
C&W Networks will have long-term use to two of
Allied Fiber’s express fibers, local fibers in North
Miami, Boca Raton and Jacksonville, and its five
colocation sites. These local links allow C&W to
connect its ARCOS-1, CFX, and PCCS submarine
cables/landing stations in Florida to the Allied Fiber
system, to help it offer higher capacities, greater
network resilience and more affordable Internet
solutions for customers, C&W said.
“As the demand for reliable, high-speed broadband
infrastructure and network access increases in every
country and continent, the need for additional subma-
rine cables and subsea capacity to connect themnatu-
rally increases as well,”Newby said.“By connecting to
and through Allied Fiber, C&WNetworks is able to effi-
ciently and cost effectively interconnect its own cable
landing stations in the United States, providing control
over service quality, cost and scalability.”
Added Paul Scott, president of C&W Networks,
“Allied Fiber’s business model provides new and
exciting opportunities for us to expand our foot-
print and better service our valued customers. We
are delighted that this neutral colocation and dark
fiber network exists so that we can improve our own
network operations and performance to better meet
the ever evolving needs of our customers.” o