Segra, one of the nation’s largest independent fiber network companies, has officially announced the launch of a new direct inland fiber route from the Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station, a major hub for subsea international traffic, to Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to certain reports, this expansion drive is purpose-built to strengthen Segra’s offerings, and at the same time, support the growing demands of hyperscale and international network providers. More on the same would reveal how the given direct inland route brings forth a unique path from Myrtle Beach inland to Florence, South Carolina before finally reaching Charlotte, where network capacity can be connected to Segra’s existing high-capacity core network.
Not just that, it is also designed to enhance diversity and resiliency, for the subsea network community in Myrtle Beach, to offer reliable, high-capacity and protected networks with multi-diversity options.
“These network enhancements strengthen a unique and direct inland fiber route from the Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station to Charlotte, boosting performance today and positioning us for tomorrow’s growing demand,” said Dave Kamphuis, vice president of carrier at Segra.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of unique route diversity. This translates to how Segra’s direct inland route provides a unique path with low latency out of Myrtle Beach, offering critical diversity for the subsea network community.
Next up, there is the potential for accessing an advanced brand of technology, which banks upon the prowess of Ciena 6500 platform powered by WaveLogic 5 Extreme 800G coherent optics to offer high data rates, increased bandwidth, optimized network resources with flexible wavelength options, available along with scalability to meet growing demands.
Another detail worth a mention relates to how the new route will provide 20.4 Tbps Day 1 capacity Myrtle Beach to Charlotte, with a facility already in place to further increase capacity later..
Markedly enough, such an enhanced connectivity becomes all the more beneficial for hyperscale, AI and international network providers, domains where it can seamlessly support growth in areas like cloud, AI and edge services.
Founded almost 125 years ago, Segra’s rise up the ranks stems from operating a wide and dense fiber-optic infrastructure best-known for providing state-of-the-art connectivity, cybersecurity, voice, cloud, as well as colocation solutions. The company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it serves, at the moment, more than 20,000 connected customer locations in 24 states and across 44,000 fiber route miles.
“As the only direct inland route from Myrtle Beach, this expansion represents a critical infrastructure investment that addresses the growing need for diverse and resilient connectivity options,” said David Cromwell, chief technology officer at Segra. “Our unique geographic positioning allows us to provide the subsea network community with a low-latency, high-capacity pathway that enhances network redundancy and reliability for our hyperscale and international carrier customers.”
