Windstream has unveiled five “strategically located” routes on its nationwide long-haul fiber transport network to improve services for wholesale and enterprise customers.

Secured as part of Windstream’s recent acquisition of EarthLink, the new routes offer customers access to “greater network diversity options, improved reliability and higher bandwidth capacity,” the company said.

Supporting Windstream Wholesale’s portfolio of offerings – including optical waves, MEF 2.0-certified carrier Ethernet, MPLS and dedicated Internet access – the routes include:

“Connecting several markets in the deep South, as well as along the Gulf Coast and the East Coast, these routes offer Windstream Wholesale customers even greater network efficiency and performance, along with access to our entire scalable, secure fiber solutions suite,” said Buddy Bayer, Windstream’s senior vice president of transport engineering. “Additionally, our unique Miami-to-Atlanta route offers our international customers diverse, low-latency 100G connectivity to Tier 1, 2 and 3 markets across the country. This premier entry point unlocks the key to market expansion for many international carriers, especially those in Latin America.”{ad}

In addition to the new routes, Windstream said its merger with EarthLink brings several other benefits to its wholesale and enterprise customers, including access to more than 445 new point of presence (POP) locations, as well as the addition of many new data centers and carrier hotels to the Windstream network.