STOCKHOLM, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Arelion today announced it has launched two multi-terabit capacity, low-latency routes from Jacksonville, FL to Atlanta, GA and from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, as well as an overbuild from Miami along Florida’s west coast up to Atlanta. These new routes enable Arelion to provide fully diverse connectivity services from Jacksonville to Atlanta via two direct routes. Arelion’s new routes enhance its capability to serve local traffic while also supporting subsea traffic flows into Atlanta from the Caribbean, Central America and South America through subsea cables landing in Jacksonville, continuing the global Internet carrier’s Gulf Coast network expansion.

Arelion’s new routes leverage the latest generation open optical line systems supporting C+L Band, sixth-generation coherent optics and multi-vendor 400G wave capability, empowering Arelion’s wholesale and enterprise customers with high-capacity optical transmission and fast service delivery. These routes will serve Atlanta’s booming data center market and growing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications, with Atlanta ranking as the sixth largest market for commissioned data center power. These routes seamlessly connect to Arelion’s diverse suburban ring to enhance metro connectivity in Atlanta, enabling Arelion to meet the demand for high-capacity bandwidth in Atlanta’s flourishing regional technology markets.

“These new investments in Georgia and Florida allow Arelion to serve the immense demand for reliable connectivity services and tremendous capacity amid Atlanta’s data center boom,” said Art Kazmierczak, Director of Strategic Sales and Network Development at Arelion. “By providing additional meshing and diversity into Atlanta, we can serve the connectivity requirements of local enterprises while supporting subsea traffic from Jacksonville and other Florida edge markets and sea cable landings, enabling low-latency cloud, content and AI/ML delivery across diverse industries.”

Further insights into this expansion and Arelion’s presence in the Gulf Coast:

• The new routes run from Jacksonville (Cologix-JAX1) to Atlanta (Equinix-AT1) and from Jacksonville (Cologix-JAX1) to Tallahassee (EdgeConnex-TAL01).
• The overbuild route enhances capacity and meshing from Atlanta (Digital Realty-ATL14) to Tallahassee (EdgeConnex-TAL01), continuing via Tampa (365 Data Centers) down to Miami (Equinix-MI1).
• Additional metro sites in Jacksonville include Telxius CLS and EdgeConnex.
• Tallahassee is a new market for Arelion, providing a local edge Point-of-Presence (PoP) and meshing/routing flexibility in the region.
• Additional metro sites in Tampa include the recently announced Flexential Tampa – North site.
• Arelion now has four diverse route options into Jacksonville and six diverse route options into Atlanta, with these two new routes going live in Q3 2024.

Arelion’s new routes provide North American customers with enhanced access to Arelion’s #1 ranked global Internet backbone, as well as Arelion’s portfolio of reliable, fully diverse connectivity services, including scalable 400G Wavelengths, IP Transit, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), Cloud Connect, Global 40G Ethernet Virtual Circuit (VC) and DDoS Mitigation services for service providers, content providers and enterprises.

About Arelion 

Arelion solves global connectivity challenges for multinational enterprises whose businesses rely on digital infrastructure. On top of the world’s #1 ranked IP backbone and a unique ecosystem of cloud and network service providers, we provide an award-winning customer experience to customers in more than 125 countries worldwide. Our global Internet services connect more than 700 cloud, security and content providers with low latency. For further resilience, our private Cloud Connect service connects directly to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle cloud across North America, Europe and Asia. Discover more at Arelion.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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ATLANTA – Loved ones of a man shot and killed outside the well-known Atlanta strip club Magic City are seeking answers in the days following his shooting death. 

Atlanta police say 32-year-old Gerrone Avery was found gunned down on Forsyth Street just before 4 a.m. on May 4. 

His mother, Tara Avery, says she spent this Mother’s Day grieving the loss of her son who took his last breaths just feet away from Magic City. 

“It was hard…it was hard to know he’s not gonna be here anymore,” she said. “I know my son was lying on that ground…and he had no one there with him.” 

APD officials confirmed a Spelman College police officer was involved in the incident but did not say who fired the fatal shots. 

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The grieving mother says she was told by detectives that surveillance video showed her son had been the victim of a robbery just moments before. 

“That’s what they told me, ‘Your son is a victim,’” she stated. “We want to know his last moments of his life. He was a loving person.” 

His sister, Jasmine Avery, told FOX 5 she just wants justice for her brother. 

“I miss him…he was always there no matter what,” she said. 

No charges have been filed or arrests made in this case. FOX 5 reached out to officials with Spelman College to find out the status of that officer’s employment. School officials said they were aware of the incident but did not have any further comment. 

Avery’s funeral is set for the end of this month. Loved ones say they plan to create a fundraiser online to help cover costs. Police have not shared any additional details about the robbery but say the investigation into the shooting is ongoing. 

The Atlanta Braves won their last series, but it sure didn’t feel like it. 

Atlanta’s struggles in game threes continued last night, as they lost out on a sweep of the New York Mets thanks to a walk-off homer by outfielder Brandon Nimmo, spoiling a good start from rebounding Bryce Elder.  

But Atlanta’s moving on, focusing on the incoming 2nd-place Chicago Cubs, who are arriving at Truist Park for a three-game set. Game one features the two teams’ respective ERA leaders in Chicago’s Shota Imanaga and Atlanta’s Reynaldo López. 

Here’s how Atlanta will line up for the contest:

RF Ronald Acuña Jr
2B Ozzie Albies
DH Marcell Ozuna
1B Matt Olson
LF Adam Duvall
SS Orlando Arcia
CF Michael Harris II
C Travis d’Arnaud
3B Zack Short

Third baseman Austin Riley, who was removed from last night’s game with “left side tightness”, is sitting out of the lineup today as a precautionary move. After waking up with lingering soreness, the team sent him for an MRI, the results of which are not yet available. 

López has been Atlanta’s best starter from a statistical perspective this season – in six starts, he’s 2-1 with a 1.53 ERA and has allowed a total of six earned runs in his 35.1 innings. He doesn’t have a particularly long track record against Chicago hitters – Catcher Yan Gomes is 1-5 and Christopher Morel is 1-1, but no one else has a hit off of López.

Here’s the Cubs lineup:

LF Mike Tauchman
RF Seiya Suzuki
CF Cody Bellinger
3B Christopher Morel
DH Ian Happ
SS Nico Hoerner
1B Michael Busch
2B Miles Mastrobuoni
C Jacob Amaya 

Imanaga’s transitioned to Major League Baseball just fine after eight seasons in Japan’s NPB – he’s 5-0 with a 1.08 ERA, having struck out 43 batters in his 41.2 innings with only five walks and three homers allowed. 

His fastball, despite sitting only 92mph, allows only a .140 batting average against thanks to its exemplary carry up in the zone, getting over 19 inches of induced vertical break. He pairs that with a splitter, coming in the low 80s, combined with a sweeper and a curveball. On the whole, opposing hitters are batting just .187 with a .258 slugging off of the lefty.    

This evening’s series opener is slated for a 7:20 PM ET first pitch. Atlanta’s broadcast is on Bally Sports South, while the Cubs are on Marquee Sports Network. For those out of market, both are available on MLB.tv and there’s a national broadcast on FS1. 

If you’d rather just listen, the Cubs radio broadcast is available on 670 The Score while the Atlanta Braves Radio Network has the standard broadcast on 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan and affiliates across Braves Country.