QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), a worldwide provider of software defined and mega-scale data center solutions, today announced that Southern Telecom, Inc. (STI), a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), has deployed its dark fiber network on the Atlanta-Metro Data Campus campus of QTS.
As a major dark fiber provider, STI extends the ability of QTS to deliver multiple dark fiber paths to the southeast region. From STI’s Atlanta to Jacksonville, the FL fiber route is the best option for those in need of connections to Atlanta and beyond with sub-cable routes.
Recently, QTS opened the Atlanta-Metro Data Center 2 (DC2) with 240,000 square feet of data hall space and 72 megawatts of power capacity, designed for large-scale enterprise and hyper-scale colocation deployment. The Atlanta-Metro DC2 was built using the modular Freedom Data Hall design of QTS that caters to the most sophisticated customers in the industry. The addition of STI’s dark fiber brings the total number of dark fiber providers at QTS’s Atlanta-Metro data center campus to five.
QTS Atlanta-Metro DC2 sits on a 95+ acre site near to the company’s flagship Atlanta-Metro data center (DC1), with more than 200 megawatts of available utility capacity which is fed from two of the largest pre-positioned, data center owned substations in the country. These substations empower QTS to deliver the lowest power cost to its customers in the southeast data center market. On full development, the Atlanta-Metro campus is anticipated to support 275+ megawatts of power capacity.
“We are pleased to be part of QTS’ Atlanta-Metro data center campus,” said Barry Navarre, Southern Telecom Business Development Manager. “Southern Telecom’s dark fiber and strategic long-haul routes will help QTS provide their customers with massive scale, operational maturity, speed to market and a premium customer experience.”
“Southern Telecom is an important addition to the expanding roster of networks available at our Atlanta campus,” said Sean Baillie, Executive Vice President, Connectivity Strategy, QTS. “We continue to expand our already dense connectivity ecosystem providing in-building access to network services required by enterprises, government entities and hyperscale customers We welcome Southern Telecom as our newest network partner.”
