CoreSite Boosts Open Cloud Exchange with 100G Ethernet Virtual Circuits
Event summary
- CoreSite launched 100G Ethernet Virtual Circuits on its Open Cloud Exchange platform, enabling faster connectivity and improved access to cloud providers.
- The upgrade allows customers to establish direct, secure, high-performance paths to public cloud providers, network carriers, and partner ecosystems over a private network.
- A government customer used OCX to interconnect deployments across Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia, and Orlando data centers without multiple long-haul carrier circuits.
- OCX’s on-demand provisioning allows dynamic scaling of bandwidth in alignment with evolving workload requirements.
The big picture
CoreSite’s introduction of 100G Ethernet Virtual Circuits on its Open Cloud Exchange platform addresses the escalating demand for high-performance connectivity in AI and cloud computing. This move aligns with industry projections that Ethernet will dominate both scale-up and scale-out market segments, positioning CoreSite as a key player in enabling seamless interconnection across major U.S. cloud regions.
What we're watching
- Adoption Pace
- How quickly enterprises will adopt 100G EVCs to support AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads.
- Market Expansion
- Whether CoreSite can sustain its leadership in inter-market connections as Ethernet demand grows across scale-up and scale-out segments.
- Competitive Response
- The pace at which competitors will introduce similar high-bandwidth interconnection solutions to challenge CoreSite’s position.
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