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Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solutions

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solutions

In recent years, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solutions have emerged as a pivotal technology in the digital infrastructure landscape, revolutionizing how data centers operate and interact. Data center interconnect refers to the solutions and technologies that link multiple data centers, enabling them to function as a cohesive network. This capability is essential for supporting cloud computing, data redundancy, disaster recovery, and global operations.

As businesses increasingly rely on digital services, the demand for efficient and reliable DCI solutions has soared. This growth has significantly impacted private data centers, multitenant data centers (MTDCs), and hyperscale data centers, driving them to enhance their scalability, redundancy, and service offerings. By facilitating seamless connectivity, DCI empowers these data centers to meet the evolving needs of businesses in the digital age, fostering innovation and expansion within the industry.

Multitenant and Colocation Data Center Interconnect Solutions

Multitenant and Colocation Data Center Interconnect Solutions

Data center interconnect solutions play a crucial role in colocation and multitenant data center environments, enabling seamless communication, efficient data transfer, and robust connectivity between facilities while supporting scalability, redundancy, and performance optimization to meet evolving business needs.

Colocation data centers utilize high-capacity networking infrastructure, including fiber-optic links and high-speed Ethernet connections, to enable data center interconnections. These physical connections provide the bandwidth required for transferring large volumes of data quickly between facilities. A carrier-neutral approach allows clients to choose from multiple network providers, enhancing redundancy and reducing costs. Virtualization techniques are employed to create overlay networks that abstract physical connections, with technologies such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), and software-defined networking (SDN) ensuring seamless interconnectivity and efficient network management. Security measures are vital in colocation environments, where multiple clients share infrastructure. Encryption protocols, VPNs, and other security features safeguard data integrity and confidentiality during transmission. Interconnection services, including cross-connects and direct cloud connections, further facilitate data center interconnect. These solutions are designed for scalability and flexibility, enabling clients to expand bandwidth, add locations, or adjust network topology as needed.

Data center interconnect supports redundancy strategies and disaster recovery by enabling data replication and failover between geographically distributed data centers, ensuring that even in the event of a failure at one location, data remains accessible from other locations. Advanced DCI solutions also optimize performance through features like traffic shaping, load balancing, and latency minimization, ensuring efficient data transfer and resource utilization.

Hyperscale Data Center Interconnect Solutions

Hyperscale Data Center Interconnect Solutions

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions are the backbone of hyperscale data centers, enabling seamless connectivity between buildings, campuses, and regions. As the generative AI boom drives unprecedented demands for high bandwidth and low latency, DCI ensures the rapid transfer of massive datasets with reliability and security. Our GlassWorks AI™ solutions enhance traditional data center interconnect methods with innovations like EDGE™ Rapid Connect and MMC Connectors, offering cutting-edge solutions that address the challenges of scalability, space optimization, and installation efficiency.

These key offerings from GlassWorks AI, revolutionize DCI deployments by integrating MMC Connectors and Flow Ribbon Cables. With 3x the fiber density and a 40% reduction in cable outer diameter compared to standard MTP solutions, ERC-MMC maximizes conduit capacity while maintaining fast installation speeds. These advancements allow hyperscale data centers to scale effortlessly, improve network performance, and meet the growing demands of AI-driven global connectivity.

Security is a top priority for hyperscale data centers, which handle sensitive and valuable data. DCI solutions incorporate robust security measures, such as encryption and secure tunneling protocols, to protect data during transmission between facilities. Advanced network virtualization and automation technologies are leveraged to simplify management and reduce operational complexity. DCI supports these technologies by providing flexible and programmable network architectures that can adapt to changing requirements.

Data Center Interconnect Products and Solutions

Our products and solutions lead innovation in the Data Center Interconnect space, addressing critical needs for density, deployment, and infrastructure optimization.

RocketRibbon® Cable

RocketRibbon® Cable

• Fiber counts up to 6,912 — double the density of legacy ribbon cables in the same or similar sized diameter

• Furcation free and finger-peelable subunits for instant fiber access

• Solid ribbon matrix for easy identification and mass fusion splicing
 

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Corning® Cables with Flow Ribbon Technology

Corning® Cables with Flow Ribbon Technology

• Reduces cable OD up to 60%

• Reduces cable prep time by 30%

• Flow Ribbon – a flexible ribbonized fiber to enable smaller and higher density cable designs while maintaining ribbon construction.

• Flow Ribbon design consists of six 2-fiber subunits intermittently bonded to each other by droplets of UV material.

• Flow Ribbon allows for smaller cable designs and easier routing in hardware.

 

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Centrix Frame

Centrix™ Frames for Data Centers

• Easily configurable to different applications and environments

• Enables the carriers to have flexibility in the type of optical circuits that they deliver to customers

• Scalable architecture allows for seamless expansion

• Density of 4,320 LC/Simplex or 2,160 LC/Duplex connections and variety of splice or preconnectorized options

 

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Optical Splice Enclosure RXD

Optical Splice Enclosure RXD

• Mass fusion splice up to 6,912

• Simplified installation processes enable time savings

• Can be wall or rack mounted

• Optimized cable routing efficiently manages cable volumes

• Removable top cover for easy additions after day one install

 

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EDGE™ RC Enclosures

EDGE™ RC Enclosures

• Ships with 24 F MTP® patch trays that each accept up to 12 MTP or Fast-Track MTP connectors 

• Maximum capacity: 3,456 interconnected fibers (12F MTP) or 6,912 interconnect fibers

(24F MTP) 

• Wall mountable and rack mountable

 

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Data Center Interconnect FAQs

Read more about our Data Center Interconnect solutions by clicking on the questions below.

  • What factors should be considered when choosing a DCI solution?

    When choosing a Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solution, key considerations include performance and reliability, ensuring high-speed, low-latency data transfer, and continuous operation. Scalability is crucial as the solution should adapt to your growing business needs. Robust security features are essential for data protection. Consider the geographical distance between your data centers, which can impact your choice and cost of the DCI solution. If the solution is compatible with your existing infrastructure, it is more cost-effective, balancing initial investment with ongoing operational expenses.

  • How scalable are Data Center Interconnect solutions?

    Whether you are choosing a semi-preconnectorized, or fully preconnectorized solution, Corning offers tremendous flexibility in fiber counts, allowing you to future-proof your installation. Semi-preconnectorized can utilize RocketRibbon® Cable in various fiber counts from 12F to 3456F in a single cable, splicing into our RXD-OSE housing, which can hold a max capacity of 6912F within a single unit. Additionally, we offer the popular 2178F family of closures for aerial, vault, handhole and more applications, offering a max of 3456F. Fully-preconnectorized solutions benefit in every way from our EDGE Rapid Connect system. 70% faster than traditional splice solutions, EDGE RC offers Indoor and Outdoor Transport Trunks in 864F to 3456F, and a complete system of indoor breakout trunks 24F-864F and more. This system is designed to work with the RXD-OPE for a max of 6912F or the mighty Rapid Connect Consolidator Frame, offering a staggering 34,560 fibers in a single frame location.

  • How can you improve the efficiency of your DCI?

    Improve the efficiency of your Data Center with Corning's EDGE™ Rapid Connect. This is a high-speed cable system that can connect data centers up to 70% faster than usual. With smaller, more robust connectors, the installation is simpler, more efficient, and reliable, making it a great choice for quickly linking your data centers.

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