The Big Apple has a new data center to enable advanced DDoS protection and enterprise colo amid a rise in cybercrime and digital transformation. Xtel Communications, an innovative telecommunications, cloud and network security solutions specialist, just announced its third data center located in Newark, New Jersey, adding to the company’s growing data center portfolio. This New York data center joins Xtel’s other two facilities, which are strategically located in Philadelphia at 401 N. Broad, the renowned international gateway, and Plano, Texas.
The addition of this new facility allows Xtel to expand its serviceable footprint of Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) via fiber-optic connections. In addition, the data center will provide robust DDoS attack mitigation options to enable more secure environments. This is especially critical as these types of cybercrimes continue to increase at an alarming rate. In recent years, DDoS attacks have risen by over 151%.
Key Features of Xtel’s New York Data Center
As with all Xtel data centers, the company’s new New York data center has the ability to maintain, operate, and monitor fiber optic backbone, voice platforms, and data centers. In addition, the data center is part of a high availability `active-active ‘ network architecture, allowing for immediate service failover and load balancing between the data centers. Each Xtel data center is annually recertified for major compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP, FISMA, SSAE18, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and Privacy Shield – GDPR.
Additional features of the data center include:
- Additional redundancy options for customers seeking more diversity in last mile fiber providers and fiber paths
- Direct Connect options to SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) providers, allowing the end-user customer to directly access these providers without having to traverse the Internet
- Strategic enterprise-level colocation services
“As enterprises and businesses continue to scale and digitally transform, the addition of our New York Market data center adds critical cybersecurity services, connectivity and redundancy to a prominent, stable market with an ever-growing, favorable business climate,” states Brian Flynn, President of Xtel. “We continuously invest in our network infrastructure while regularly expanding our services and solutions portfolio to meet ever-changing requirements. We look forward to continued growth in this market and beyond.”
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Xtel’s services and solutions are individually tailored to the organization’s needs, goals and budget. The company specializes in Unified Communications, Network Security, Network Connectivity and Voice services.
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