EdgeConneX plans to go live soon with three new Florida-based Edge Data Centers–in Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Miami.
Heavy user demand for over-the-top (OTT) content in under-served cities is creating new opportunities for Internet infrastructure providers. EdgeConneX specializes in supporting content providers and content delivery networks (CDNs) at the edge of the network where bandwidth-intensive and latency- sensitive content and applications must reside for performance and security reasons.
“The Internet is served from one of nine peering points across the U.S. today, which worked fine for e-mail,” said Clint Heiden, chief commercial officer at EdgeConneX. “Our Edge Data Center locations in Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Miami increase Internet performance significantly and provide a better Internet experience for end-users. Browsers search faster, videos stream without interruption and applications deliver time-sensitive data…on-time. The domestic demand for content has outgrown the Internet infrastructure that exists today. EdgeConneX is rapidly building infrastructure in new markets to bring the Internet local across the country, creating the Internet of Everywhere.”
EdgeConneX has deployed in 20 markets so far.
Enterprise Florida president and CEO Bill Johnson added, “Florida’s information technology sector continues to grow and companies like EdgeConneX are helping to diversify that sector. These data centers in Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Miami will create important capital investments in those regions and further strengthen Florida’s position as a business super-state. Florida is the third-largest state for high-tech establishments, and nearly 250,000 Floridians are employed in the technology sector today. We look forward to the growth of EdgeConneX across the state.”
All three of EdgeConneX’s Florida Edge Data Centers will officially launch by the end of the second quarter, 2015.