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Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, today announced new high-bandwidth network routes connecting the East Coast of the US to Europe, supercharging capacity for customers as AI traffic surges across the world’s busiest data pathway. Colt’s expanded infrastructure widens choice for organisations needing secure, powerful, low latency routes along the US East Coast and between the US East Coast and Europe.
The expansion - which includes a new transatlantic subsea route and fibre network builds - comes as demand for capacity is at an all-time high, with AI, cloud and streaming requiring data-heavy workloads, and with transatlantic subsea cables carrying 55% more data than transpacific routes.
Large cloud and content providers are some of the first organisations to benefit from Colt’s new infrastructure: on major routes their traffic accounts for over 80% of all international bandwidth usage, and with global used bandwidth tripling since 2020, demand continues to rise. Colt’s infrastructure expansion connects key data centres and gives these organisations the capacity and resilience to grow at speed, scaling effortlessly to meet future demand while they focus on delivering outstanding digital experiences for their end users.
The expansion provides Colt customers and partners with:
- Capacity on the Marea subsea cable reaching from Virginia Beach – around 200 miles south of Washington DC on the US east coast – to Bilbao in Northern Spain.
- Investment in the building of new high bandwidth fibre routes between key Atlantic cable landing stations
- A new network ‘backbone’ from New York to Ashburn, Virginia and connecting Ashburn to Virginia Beach. Ashburn, located at the heart of the Washington metropolitan area, has one of the world’s largest concentrations of data centres, known as ‘Data Center Alley’
- Diverse, high-capacity transatlantic routing options to choose from, providing greater resilience and back-up
- End-to-end connectivity across Colt’s infrastructure between the US and Europe with new 100G/400G wave options for businesses to handle surging demand for network capacity
Buddy Bayer, chief operating officer, Colt Technology Services said:
“This exciting network expansion marks the latest milestone in our ongoing commitment to our customers to deliver exceptional global infrastructure that powers the AI economy. We’re building and managing the most valuable, sustainable digital infrastructure in the world: quantum secure, AI-ready and engineered to be sustainable and smart at every layer.”
The new routes form a significant phase in Colt’s digital infrastructure expansion, advancing Colt from Europe’s largest B2B fibre provider to one of the largest globally and a key player in the U.S. market. As demand for high performance, energy efficient connectivity accelerates, businesses rely on Colt to deliver the scale, resilience and innovation they need to lead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
The expansion brings Colt’s presence in the US to four connected cable landing stations on the east coast, with on-net options across 10 Transatlantic subsea cable systems. This infrastructure is in addition to Colt’s expansive intelligent network in 40+ countries with 1100+ connected data centres, 32,000 enterprise buildings and 275+ cloud points of presence.
About Marea Subsea Cable System
The Marea Subsea cable systems pans around 6600km (4,100 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean connecting Virgina Beach in the USA with Bilbao in Spain: ‘Marea’ is ‘tide’ in Spanish. Positioned further south than other transatlantic cables, it is one of the highest-capacity, lowest latency subsea cable systems. Colt will lease fibre within the cable and will connect it to its own network infrastructure.
