{"id":12848,"date":"2019-06-17T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:28:45","slug":"centurylink-invests-in-miami-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/networking\/centurylink-invests-in-miami-network.html","title":{"rendered":"CenturyLink Invests in Miami Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Above photo: CenturyLink <\/em>Broomfield Campus<\/em><\/a> <\/em>in Colorado<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CenturyLink<\/a> is making a significant investment <\/a>to expand its network in the\u00a0South Florida\u00a0market. Located in\u00a0Miami\u00a0\u2013 the gateway to\u00a0Latin America\u00a0\u2013 the new facility will also help the company serve the skyrocketing demand for enterprise services in\u00a0Latin America, as well as from\u00a0South Florida\u00a0organizations doing business there.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
CenturyLink Expands its Comprehensive E-Services Portfolio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This past April, the company added multipoint-to-multipoint capabilities to its\u00a0Ethernet E-Services<\/a>\u00a0portfolio to help enterprises simplify bandwidth needs and create seamless, multinational Wide Area Networks to reduce costs and complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our global Ethernet Services platform delivers flexibility, simplicity and scalability so customers can design their network to meet their needs today and in the future,” said\u00a0Chris McReynolds, vice president, core network services, this past April. “The reliability of Ethernet and customization driven by our mature SDN platform provides a strong foundation for adaptive networking, hybrid IT and cloud connectivity.”\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Florida expansion includes a new network gateway, to manage the flow of internet and data traffic on CenturyLink’s robust global network, and a state-of-the-art, high-efficiency data center. Together, they will help drive IT agility for\u00a0South Florida\u00a0and Latin American customers for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“CenturyLink is committed to providing our business and government customers with world-class network and technology services. This expansion enables us to grow our capabilities in\u00a0South Florida\u00a0and\u00a0Latin America\u00a0and position our customers at the vanguard of the digital transformation age,” said\u00a0Andre Rodriguez, CenturyLink general manager for the\u00a0South Florida\u00a0market. “The new gateway will also support the evolution and simplification of CenturyLink’s product portfolio as well as our vision to become our customers’ trusted connection to the networked world.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
CenturyLink Technology Center of Excellence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The new CenturyLink gateway will be housed in a 98,000-plus sq. ft. building on 22nd<\/sup> Street. Located in a 500-year flood zone and sitting on one of the highest points in the city, the site is approximately one mile from a network access point (where different sections of the internet’s high-speed backbone network are connected) and will also connect to three long-haul fiber routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the gateway will connect to nearby sub-sea landing stations, which provide access to sub-sea communications cables, and a large colocation facility that serves Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial design began in May, shortly after the purchase of the property, and construction is anticipated to begin in September. CenturyLink expects to begin moving infrastructure into the building in summer 2020. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attention South Florida:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn about the latest in UCaaS, the Channel, MSPs, IT, IOT, Edge, Cybersecurity, AI, SD-WAN, IoT and the Future of Work at the world\u2019s only #TechSuperShow, ITEXPO collocated with the world\u2019s only SD-WAN Expo, Feb 12-14, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above photo: CenturyLink Broomfield Campus in Colorado CenturyLink is making a significant investment to expand its network in the\u00a0South Florida\u00a0market. Located in\u00a0Miami\u00a0\u2013 the gateway to\u00a0Latin America\u00a0\u2013 the new facility will also help the company serve the skyrocketing demand for enterprise services in\u00a0Latin America, as well as from\u00a0South Florida\u00a0organizations doing business there.\u00a0 This past April, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2089,1920,2090,1022,1901],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}