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Verizon, DuPont Fabros Extend Relationship

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DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) has expanded its relationship with Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Already a presence in DFT’s other data centers in Northern Virginia as well as California, Illinois and New Jersey, Verizon will be extending its services to theDuPont Fabros ACC7 data center as well. Verizon provides DFT’s customers with enterprise-class networking services, including private IP, public Internet, ethernet and wavelength services.

Verizon covers 800,000 route miles, and manages more than 300,000 security, network and hosting devices in 142 countries and territories, including more than 120,000 routers, 60,000 switches, 80 technologies and 44,000 third-party circuits.

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