GTT Communications, which provides secure cloud networking solutions for multinational organizations, completed its deployment of IP networking technology across its backbone.
This upgrade will allow customers to increase port capacity, from 400G to 800G, as market trends such as AI continue to drive traffic volume growth. It will be available through GTT’s AI-enabled network, spanning six continents. GTT also invested in expanding access to its global network footprint with new points-of-presence (PoPs) and cloud interconnections.
The GTT-owned and operated internet backbone allows a significant percentage of the world’s internet traffic to privately transit its network. Investments in the network edge include:
- New PoPs throughout the U.S. and Turkey.
- Enhancements to GTT’s Cloud Connect offering, with new private connections to Microsoft Azure (U.S., Singapore and Australia) and Amazon Web Services (U.S., France, Sweden, Hong Kong and Singapore).
- Upgrades to GTT’s 10 global scrubbing centers, to ensure faster identification of DDoS and spoofing attacks using mitigation devices with advanced inspection detection and 24×7, always-on protection that is maintained by GTT operations centers.
“We are investing in our network to support the market’s growing demand for secure network capacity, by rapidly responding to the needs of customers located around the world while maintaining operational excellence,” said GTT COO, George Kuzmanovski. “Customer needs for networking connectivity are rapidly evolving driven by shifts in traffic patterns and volume growth. GTT is continually expanding to meet the demand for connecting people and machines to their data and applications where and when they need it.”
The global IP network upgrade allows for improved decision-making and traffic routing through telemetry, ML and AI-enhanced resolution, supporting AIOps with self-healing functionality. The investments have allowed for a smarter, faster and more secure network, using approximately 70 percent less energy per transported bit.
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