Ziply boosts Washington data centre links with fibre ring

Ziply Fibre has completed a fibre ring in Quincy and become an on-net carrier at Csquare's Lynnwood data centre campus, expanding its footprint in two Washington infrastructure markets.

The Quincy project creates a redundant fibre loop for the local data centre market, while the Lynnwood expansion gives customers at Csquare SEA1 direct access to Ziply's network. Together, the moves highlight how network operators are positioning themselves around rising demand for data centre connectivity in the Pacific Northwest.

Quincy has become a significant US data centre market, supported by hydroelectric power, a cooler climate and existing long-haul network access. The new ring adds two geographically separate fibre paths intended to reduce the risk of a single network failure affecting customers.

The Quincy ring is aimed at operators that need dark fibre links between facilities, as well as access to broader metro and long-haul routes. It is also designed to support growing traffic demand from AI and hyperscale computing deployments in the area.

Chris Gellos, General Manager of Commercial at Ziply Fibre, linked the build-out to the area's changing workload requirements.

"Quincy has become one of the most important data center markets in the country, and the companies building there need infrastructure that keeps pace with the workloads they are running," said Chris Gellos, General Manager of Commercial at Ziply Fibre. "This ring gives those operators the path diversity and reliability that AI infrastructure demands."

Lynnwood access

In Lynnwood, Ziply is now available inside Csquare's SEA1 campus, a carrier-neutral colocation facility north of Seattle. The site spans more than 103,920 square feet, including 62,395 square feet of raised-floor colocation space, and serves enterprises, cloud providers, managed service providers and customers in regulated industries.

That presence gives current and prospective tenants another fibre carrier option without separate last-mile arrangements into the building. Customers at the site can access dedicated internet, wavelength services, IP transit, Ethernet and direct routing into Ziply's wider fibre network.

Csquare Lynnwood sits on the Highway 99 corridor with access to Interstate 5 and is close to Boeing's Everett manufacturing complex. The facility holds SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, PCI DSS and ISAE-3402 certifications, according to the company.

Gellos said the Lynnwood move places Ziply directly within an operating data centre environment used by businesses across the region.

"The Pacific Northwest is home to a dense and growing concentration of enterprises, aerospace companies, and technology firms that demand more from their infrastructure," said Gellos. "Being on-net at Csquare Lynnwood puts Ziply Fibre directly inside the data center environment where businesses are already operating, eliminating last-mile complexity and delivering the low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity they need to compete."

Regional push

The two developments add to Ziply's broader commercial infrastructure strategy as it targets enterprise, carrier and data centre customers across its north-western US footprint. The business launched leasable colocation services in more than 200 secure facilities across four states after repurposing central office buildings as part of its shift from copper to fibre.

For the wider market, the announcements reflect a familiar pattern in regions where AI-related computing clusters and cloud infrastructure are growing quickly. Data centre operators are seeking more route diversity, higher-capacity interconnection and closer access to carrier networks inside campuses, especially in markets outside the largest coastal hubs.

Quincy stands out because it combines power availability with a growing concentration of facilities. As more capacity comes online, network redundancy becomes a basic requirement for tenants and operators that cannot afford service interruptions across training, inference or storage environments.

Lynnwood represents another part of the same chain, where colocation customers want a choice of providers inside a metro-area facility that can serve both local business demand and links to larger cloud and network ecosystems. Adding another carrier can widen procurement options for tenants with compliance needs or large transport requirements between sites.

Ziply is an independent business unit of Bell Canada, a subsidiary of BCE. Its recent commercial expansion has focused on long-haul and metro network reach, as well as access to third-party data centre environments in markets where demand for fibre connectivity is rising.

The latest additions leave the company in a stronger position in central Washington's data centre corridor and the Seattle area's northern colocation market, where direct carrier presence and route diversity are becoming more important selection factors for customers.

Csquare Lynnwood offers 100% uptime service level commitments, N+1 redundant power and cooling, and six-layer physical security, according to the facility operator.