RagingWire Selects Sidera Networks to Connect to

April 11, 2012 - PRLog -- New York – April 11, 2012 — Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announces that RagingWire Data Centers, the nation’s premier data center provider, has selected Sidera Networks to connect to their new Ashburn, VA data center. A key consideration for the selection of Sidera’s network was its unique route, which bypasses Washington, DC.

“Sidera Networks and RagingWire Data Centers share a philosophy of delivering unique options to customers,” says Clint Heiden, president, Sidera Networks. “The combination of RagingWire’s focus on 2N+1 design, and innovative facility design, combined with Sidera’s focus on diverse connectivity, including a Washington DC bypass route, offers an unmatched option for end-customers trying to get in and out of Ashburn, VA.”  

“Bringing Sidera Networks into our Virginia facility is a win-win situation for customers,” said Dan Golding, vice president and general manager of RagingWire’s Virginia data center.  “Sidera offers connectivity to most of the major metropolitan areas on the East Coast, as well as Chicago and London, with low latency and the ability to bypass those metropolitan congestion points if necessary.  Our partnership with Sidera solidifies our commitment to providing the highest possible levels of service to our customers, no matter how large their bandwidth needs or how low their latency requirements.”

RagingWire’s Virginia facility is 140,000 square feet, with 70,000 square feet used for raised floor data center space.  The facility boasts a 2N+1 redundancy level in its critical facilities infrastructure in order to lead the industry in facility uptime, offering a 100% uptime SLA.

Sidera’s robust and expanding fiber-optic network in the Washington, DC area, including Ashburn, VA, provides strategic advantages to financial services firms and other high bandwidth customers who value both diversity and low latency.  Sidera’s services include dark fiber, wavelength services and Ethernet services. To learn more about Sidera’s services, visit www.sidera.net or follow Sidera on Twitter @sideranetworks.



About Sidera Networks
Sidera Networks, LLC (www.sidera.net), is the premier provider of tailored, high capacity communications services to carrier and enterprise customers. Sidera Networks offers a comprehensive suite of facilities-based services including: Ethernet, SONET, Wavelength, Dark Fiber, Internet Access, Colocation and more. With a fiber optic network leveraging unique rights-of-way that delivers connectivity to the major metropolitan areas from Maine to Virginia and out to Chicago, as well as access to Toronto and London, Sidera is committed to delivering cost-effective, custom solutions coupled with superior industry expertise, service and support.

About  RagingWire Data Centers
RagingWire Data Centers. provides highly customized and flexible collocation wholesale solutions to meet the needs of high-density, data-intensive Internet content providers and enterprises. RagingWire operates 2N+1 redundant, highly secure data centers in California and Northern Virginia.  RagingWire data centers are engineered to provide 100% availability and highly scalable power and cooling in conjunction with managed IT solutions for companies with mission-critical IT systems. Teaming with RagingWire's carrier-neutral data centers enables clients to reduce operating costs, be more efficient, and improve time to market. More information is available at www.ragingwire.com.