Improving Chicago's connectivity

To support a range of economical high-bandwidth options and a variety of customer applications, QTS Realty Trust, an international provider of data centre, managed hosting and cloud services, is deploying Ciena’s® Waveserver® stackable data centre interconnect (DCI) platform.

Wednesday, 11th January 2017 Posted 7 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Ciena’s Waveserver will power QTS’ HyperConnect Platform. With this upgrade, QTS will provide its customers up to 400 Gb/s connectivity between its new Chicago data centre and Lakeside Technology Centre (350 East Cermak). The increase in capacity allows QTS to easily and more economically turn up new data connections – from 1G to 100G – for its customers who need larger or multiple low latency connections to its data centres.

The scale of QTS’ mega data centres helps support growth of hyperscale cloud providers, including offering Amazon Web Services Direct Connect^®. In addition, QTS provides a fully integrated technology platform featuring customisable data centre solutions, colocation, managed hosting, hybrid cloud and disaster recovery services for enterprise and government organisations.

Ciena’s Waveserver allows QTS to offer more competitive solutions, as they can now cost-effectively offer high-capacity connections on a scalable and reliable network. The platform’s openness and high programmability enable quick and simple integration and service automation for fast, easy service activation and monitoring. Additionally, by deploying Waveserver on its existing infrastructure, QTS is saving additional costs and time to scale its network.

Ciena’s Waveserver offers massive capacity and density—400 Gb/s of line capacity plus 400 Gb/s of client Ethernet ports in a compact, 1RU form factor. It leverages a data centre operations model so QTS has the flexibility to quickly turn up new services and support customers’ dynamic web-scale DCI applications on the schedule they require.