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Coming Soon: A Data Center Near You
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Coming Soon: A Data Center Near YouComing Soon: A Data Center Near You

As over the top (OTT) services and streaming video have come to dominate residential traffic flows and enterprises move their IT applications into the cloud, network connectivity to and from data centers has become a more important requirement.

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