Been a while since we posted here. We've been heads down on Canadian infrastructure for the last few months, and there's a lot to catch up on.
The Backbone
We're bringing up a Toronto to Montreal backbone. 100G wavelength, roughly 13ms latency, 540km. This has been taking most of our time and it's the foundation for everything else we're doing in Canada.
This gives us our own path between our two Canadian facilities instead of relying entirely on upstream transit for inter-city traffic. It also enables the DCI product and sets us up for future expansion east.
Montreal
Our second Canadian datacenter is coming online once the backbone is up. Montreal will have the full service catalog — IP transit, dedicated servers, colocation, virtual machines, and SucuraGuard DDoS protection. Same pricing and same standards as Toronto.
For anyone who needs Quebec data sovereignty, French-speaking market presence, or just lower latency to Eastern Canada and the US Northeast — this is it. Two Canadian cities, one network, connected on our backbone.
More details on the Montreal services page.
Data Center Interconnect
We launched Data Center Interconnect — private Layer 2 connectivity between Toronto and Montreal over the backbone. EVPL, VLAN handoffs, dedicated circuits from 1G to 100G.
If you have infrastructure in both cities, or you need a private path between them for replication, backhaul, or multi-site redundancy, this is a straightforward way to get it done without routing through the public internet.
What's Next
Get the backbone lit, get Montreal taking orders, and keep building. We'll post updates as things come online. If you want to stay in the loop, follow us on LinkedIn or check the weathermap — you'll see the TOR-MTL link show up when it's live.
9 PoPs globally. 2Tbps+ DDoS mitigation. A Canadian backbone. AS398999.
— Eric B
President, Sucura Networks
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