FiberLight has been selected by Whatbox, a company specializing in SaaS solutions for high-speed network applications and global content distribution, to provision high-capacity and redundant fiber for inter data center networking.
Driven by customers’ growing demand for capacity and content sharing, this enhanced dark fiber capability from FiberLight ensures Whatbox can leverage ample capacity on a short timeline with built in redundancy between data centers.
As a result of accelerated data demands due to COVID-19, Whatbox was experiencing a dramatic increase in usage from individuals and teams utilizing the internet to share media and content virtually. To ensure the company could meet these requirements and have room to expand further into the future, FiberLight quickly supplemented the company’s existing 100Gbps lit wavelength network by provisioning redundant dark fiber connectivity between their data centers in Northern Virginia, enabling Whatbox to light their own 400Gbps waves as needed. This dark fiber provides near limitless scalability and increased control, empowering Whatbox to grow more cost effectively than with lit circuit leasing options. The expedited dark fiber deployment was in place and turned up in the span of just two weeks.
FiberLight’s dark fiber enables businesses to avert the need to contact network service providers or vendors every time service needs to be adjusted according to market demand, saving both time and money. Dark fiber’s bandwidth is only limited by the equipment placed on it, so businesses can leverage virtually limitless capacity for ongoing growth.
FiberLight delivers 20 years of dedicated expertise designing, building, maintaining and operating large-scale, custom, high-capacity fiber infrastructure in some of the country’s most rapidly growing areas. The company’s dark fiber solutions deliver complete operational control, security and scalability, improving business operations and provisioning peace of mind for network and data center providers, large enterprises across the U.S. and up-the-stack partners looking to evolve their networking capabilities.
