QTS Realty Trust is deploying Ciena Corporation Waveserver stackable data center interconnect (DCI) platform. Ciena’s Waveserver will power QTS’ HyperConnect Platform. With this upgrade, QTS will provide its customers up to 400 Gb/s connectivity between its new Chicago data center and Lakeside Technology Center (350 East Cermak). The increase in capacity allows QTS to easily and more economically turn up new data connections – from 1G to 100G – for its customers who need larger or multiple low latency connections to its data centers. Key Facts are, The scale of QTS’ mega data centers helps support growth of hyperscale cloud providers, including offering Amazon Web Services Direct Connect ®. In addition, QTS provides a fully integrated technology platform featuring customizable data center solutions, colocation, managed hosting, hybrid cloud and disaster recovery services for enterprise and government organizations. Ciena’s Waveserver allows QTS to offer more competitive solutions, as they can now cost-effectively offer high-capacity connections on a scalable and reliable network. The platform’s openness and high programmability enable quick and simple integration and service automation for fast, easy service activation and monitoring. Additionally, by deploying Waveserver on its existing infrastructure, QTS is saving additional costs and time to scale its network. Ciena’s Waveserver offers massive capacity and density—400 Gb/s of line capacity plus 400 Gb/s of client Ethernet ports in a compact, 1RU form factor. It leverages a data center operations model so QTS has the flexibility to quickly turn up new services and support customers’ dynamic web-scale DCI applications on the schedule they require.