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Case Study Explores Improved Cloud Security and Performance Results from EdgeConneX® and Electric Lightwave™ Partnership
February 2016 by Marc Jacob
EdgeConneX®, specializing in global infrastructure solutions at the edge of the network, and Electric Lightwave™, an Integra company and provider of fiber-based, carrier-grade networking, communications and technology solutions, today share the publication of a case study highlighting the benefits of their long-standing partnership. The case study examines how the EdgeConneX purpose-built, proximity-based Edge Data Centers®, combined with Electric Lightwave’s reliable, secure and high capacity fiber network, move Internet content, cloud and enterprise applications closer to the end-user. Uniting Edge Data Centers with Electric Lightwave’s resilient network creates a faster end-to-end solution, while enhancing performance and reducing costs for accessing the Cloud, social media or corporate infrastructure.
EdgeConneX Edge Data Centers are purpose-built to offer security, speed and performance improvements. These innovations enable customers to deliver digital content to any end-user as fast as possible. Every facility is proximity-based, strategically located nearest to the end-user’s point of access to reduce network latency and optimize performance. Local proximity access also brings the Cloud closer to the enterprise, enabling more secure, real-time access to cloud applications and services while offering reduced backbone transport costs. In early 2013, EdgeConneX began working with Electric Lightwave to provide network connectivity for seven initial regional locations, including Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Denver.
Benefits that customers experience from the Electric Lightwave and EdgeConneX partnership include:
Network security, speed and performance improvements enabling customers to deliver digital content fast to any customer;
The most innovative data center ecosystem in the western U.S. for accessing and delivering digital content, expanding the infrastructure for many of the world’s largest technology companies;
Ability for Edge Data Center tenants to tap into virtually unlimited bandwidth and achieve more reliable fiber connectivity, exceptional performance and faster delivery of their content;
Enablement of cloud, social media and corporate infrastructures with new capabilities and opportunities for accessing and transporting digital content;
4K Ultra HD streaming video, now available with many popular Over-the-Top (OTT) content providers including Amazon Video, Netflix and YouTube, can now be served in new markets through a cost-effective, higher performing technology infrastructure for both creators and consumers; and
More secure, real-time access to cloud applications and services with reduced backbone transport costs because every facility is strategically located nearest to the end-user’s point of access to reduce network latency and optimize performance – bringing the Cloud closer to the enterprise.
As the case study illustrates, the rates of content creation and consumption are growing exponentially, with experts estimating that in the next five years, the market will grow from 1.8 billion connected individuals with 4 billion connected devices, to upwards of 9 billion individuals with 75 billion devices. However, the Internet and supporting infrastructure have not kept pace, leading to a predicted drop in user satisfaction and thus slowing adoption of new technologies that help drive enterprise revenue and efficiency. The Cloud, social media, online gaming, healthcare and enterprises need a solution to the challenge of utilizing technology to its full potential in order to drive efficiency improvements that increase profit, revenue and customer loyalty. The answer is the combination of a resilient, high-capacity fiber infrastructure and a localized data center platform near end-users. According to Gartner’s Edge Manifesto, these increased workloads require “the use of smaller, distributed, connected data centers, closer to concentrations of users and generators of content.”
