DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc., (DFT) has selected AboveNet to provide fiber connectivity in the company’s wholesale data center NJ1 located in Piscataway, N.J.

AboveNet will deploy equipment at DFT’s NJ1 data center, utilizing DFT’s underground and secure 3-lateral conduit bank system, and will make the facility an IP and metro Ethernet POP. Customers within NJ1 will be able to take advantage of connectivity to two major carrier hotels located in the New York City metro area, by utilizing AboveNet’s private, fiber optic network and extensive metro footprint for high bandwidth connectivity, the company stated in a press release.

AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government, the company stated in a press release.

“We focus exclusively on the needs of the high bandwidth customer, so we designed our network to reach key Internet hub cities and markets with a high concentration of web-centric businesses, financial services organizations and enterprises with a multinational presence,” said Bill LaPerch, president and chief executive officer for AboveNet. “We are pleased to work with DuPont Fabros Technology to bring this extensive network to their enterprise and carrier customers.”

Being an intercity network spanning approximately 12,000 route miles and a global Tier 1 IP backbone, DFT’s enterprise and carrier customers also can access AboveNet’s world-class fiber optic network infrastructure including more than 2.3 million fiber miles. AboveNet provides a complete portfolio of metro Ethernet, WDM, Long Haul and IP transit services to the company.

In April 2010, the company announced a major new contract with IPR International, LLC, which offers comprehensive Managed Electronic Data Protection Service to over 240 clients in 17 countries. As part of the contract, AboveNet is providing high bandwidth connectivity solutions linking IPR facilities in Philadelphia with IPR's recently opened data center in Wilmington, Del., and also to IPR's Reading Business Continuity Center located in Reading, Pa., where AboveNet solutions already support large enterprises.