Fortress Group to Showcase NextGen SMART ILA at Denver Event

BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Fortress Group, a company focused on designing and delivering scalable digital infrastructure, is set to showcase its latest innovation, the NextGen SMART ILA, at its exclusive Experience Week event in Denver, Colorado, from October 20 to 22, 2026. This event is designed to give industry clients and partners a firsthand look at the company's next-generation modular optical infrastructure platform, which addresses the growing demands of AI, cloud computing, and increasing network traffic.

The NextGen SMART ILA is a standardized, modular alternative to traditional precast infrastructure, offering faster deployment, greater flexibility, and long-term scalability. The platform supports low-density, high-density, and mixed configurations, enabling consistent deployment across multiple sites while accommodating evolving network requirements. Its architecture supports a 600 kW day-one design, scalable to 1.2 MW, with 400 to 800 kW of ICT capacity across the platform.

Attendees of the Experience Week event will have the opportunity to explore the full-scale prototype of the NextGen SMART ILA alongside Fortress' engineering and leadership teams. Through dedicated sessions, they will gain insight into the platform's scalable architecture, integrated SMART technology, and applications for the evolving infrastructure demands of the AI era. The platform is designed to address the challenges faced by network operators, such as rising density requirements, power and cooling constraints, and the need to plan for future capacity without overbuilding infrastructure from the outset.

Tristan Cornell, Head of Client Solutions at Fortress Group, emphasized the importance of the NextGen SMART ILA in meeting the needs of hyperscalers and carriers.

The NextGen SMART ILA includes Fortress SMART technology, which brings together engineering information, site access, field activity, facility systems, and asset lifecycle information through one platform. This technology supports real-time capacity calculations and growth planning, secure site access, vendor and work tracking, living as-built records, facility control, and lifecycle and digital twin functionality. The result is infrastructure designed not only for the equipment inside the site but for how that site will be operated, maintained, and expanded over time.

Fortress Group, founded by a leadership team with over 30 years of experience building the backbone of the digital world, is purpose-built to design and deliver scalable digital infrastructure with the speed, certainty, and reliability modern industries demand. As a turnkey partner, Fortress aligns design and construction from the earliest stages, engineers from the inside out, and delivers innovative, scalable solutions through a single accountable team. The company's commitment to innovation and efficiency is reflected in the NextGen SMART ILA, which is set to revolutionize the way digital infrastructure is built and managed.