Case Study: Connecting Rural America to the Cloud
AT A GLANCE
The Carrier
- INDATEL connects 700+ rural exchange carriers, 1100+ POPs and 275,000+ buildings with 100,000+ miles of fiber, linking rural to urban America
- Leveraging strength in numbers, INDATEL enables wholesale carriers to leverage the power of its rural fiber foot print to fulfil national RFP’s
- INDATEL Members leverage INDATEL & Digital Realty Cloud solution to meet the demands of their government and enterprise clients
Objectives
- Offer rural enterprises, hospitals, universities and local governments secure private cloud connectivity at reasonable cost
- Offer peer-to-peer connectivity among INDATEL member carriers
- Provide scalable bandwidth and avoid Internet congestion
Results
By choosing Digital Realty & Service Exchange, INDATEL:
- Lets member carriers offer their customers direct, private, secure connectivity to multiple cloud providers
- Eliminates the high set up fees and requirements of individual cloud providers
- Helps members update and diversify their offerings in changing times
- Business and technical deadlines are due to be met, with U.S. deployments expected to be live in 2018
