Telcentris Inc., a cloud communications provider and the creator of VoxOx and VoxOx In Business, has opened a new data center at the Equinix collocation facility on 60 Hudson St. in New York. The company’s data center operations and facilities have previously been centered on the West Coast.
Telcentris’ deployment of a major data center facility on the East Coast has enabled the company to vastly increase its capacity for managing voice and data traffic. The new facility has also added further geographic redundancy, enabling the seamless rerouting of traffic should there be a disruption to West Coast infrastructure due to natural disasters, carrier issues, or other incidents that affect the physical structure or its contents. Previously, Telcentris used third-party services, such as Amazon’s AWS, to enable geographic redundancy.
The New York-based facility also expands the company’s CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) footprint. Being a CLEC enables Telcentris to provide services such as telephone numbers, local and long distance calling, and data access over its own network, allowing it to compete with incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) such as AT&T.
Telcentris has been a facilities-based CLEC in California since November 2009 and has long been developing its nationwide CLEC infrastructure with regulatory approval in several other states. With the New York data center now in place, Telcentris will soon be able to reap the CLEC benefits in that geographic location, which, in turn, empowers the company to pass related benefits along to customers.
