Zayo Bandwidth to Light New Metro Network and Provide Backhaul Services
Zayo Bandwidth, regional provider fiber-based bandwidth solutions to
carrier, enterprise and government customers, announced today that it will begin providing fiber-based bandwidth services to DRS
) September 15, 2008 -- Zayo Group, a regional provider of bandwidth and telecom solutions, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire network assets in Colorado, New Jersey and Illinois from the Adesta Communications Secured Creditor Trust. The acquisition--Zayo's tenth since July 2007--is expected to close this month.
Zayo's network currently spans 18,700 metro and regional fiber route miles, serving more than 1,200 on-net locations in 20 states and 125 markets. These statistics do not include additional network in the Pacific Northwest from Zayo's recently announced acquisition of Columbia Fiber Solutions.
) May 28, 2009 -- Zayo Group, a regional provider of bandwidth and telecom services to carrier, enterprise and government customers, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FiberNet Telecom Group (Nasdaq: FTGX), a leading provider of complex interconnection services enabling the exchange of voice, video and data traffic between multiple global networks. The acquisition is subject to approval by regulators and FiberNet shareholders, as well as other customary closing conditions. The transaction is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2009.
For more information on FiberNet and the transaction, please visit http://www.ftgx.com
) October 3, 2008 -- Zayo Group, a regional provider of bandwidth and telecom solutions, announced today it has closed a $35 million debt facility amendment and finalized on schedule previously announced acquisition agreements for Columbia Fiber Solutions, the Adesta Communications Secured Creditor Trust and multiple fiber networks from Citynet.
) July 28, 2009 -- Zayo Enterprise Networks, a division of Zayo Group and a provider of fiber-based telecommunications solutions for business, government and education, announced today it has completed the implementation of its new network infrastructure and migration of its existing customers to the new network. This completes the integration of customers included in an acquisition of five city markets from CenturyTel in July, 2008. Additionally, Zayo will now be delivering Ethernet services to customers in these markets.
) May 15, 2009 -- The Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award program recognizes entrepreneurs who demonstrate extraordinary success in the areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The program celebrates its 23rd anniversary this year and has expanded to recognize business leaders in over 135 cities in 50 countries throughout the world.
) September 14, 2009 -- Zayo Group, a regional provider of bandwidth and telecom solutions, announced today it has obtained $30 million of debt financing. CoBank, Royal Bank of Canada, and SunTrust acted as financial advisors on the transaction and provided the additional debt capital. The financing was used to partially fund the Company's previously announced acquisition of FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.
) October 8, 2009 -- Zayo Enterprise Networks, a division of Zayo Group and a provider of fiber-based telecommunications solutions for business, government and education, today announced the company's expansion into Washington and Idaho to complete the formation of its new Northwest Region.
The new regional enterprise network includes previously acquired assets of Northwest Telephone Inc. in Wenatchee, Washington, as well as Columbia Fiber Solutions in Spokane, Washington, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Zayo has also announced that it is deploying fiber based Ethernet and Internet Access services in markets across its regional footprint throughout the northwest to deliver cost-effective local and wide area communications.
) August 31, 2009 -- Louisville, CO, the home of Zayo Group corporate headquarters, was named the #1 best place to live by CNN Money Magazine. The employees of Zayo Group congratulate the residents of Louisville for achieving this recognition.
) October 1, 2009 -- Zayo Enterprise Networks (ZEN), a division of Zayo Group and a provider of fiber-based telecommunications solutions for business, government and education hosted over 100 school students from Colorado Uplift--an organization focused on empowering urban youth to lead successful lives--at the Rockies game on Thursday, September 24, 2009.
Prior to the game, Zayo raised funds to donate over 100 backpacks filled with school supplies like: pens, pencils, paper, markers, and notebooks to Colorado Uplift. These were then delivered to students in Denver Public Schools.
) October 7, 2008 -- In response to recent customer demand, American Fiber Systems (AFS ) today announces the addition of 5,760 fiber miles of new network in Carson City, Nevada, marking the official opening of the 10th AFS location. By expanding their Reno footprint, AFS, the metro fiber connectivity leader intends to support the growing needs of enterprises and government entities in Carson City and meet the increasing demand for connectivity and bandwidth to and from the city. The development is tied to recent custom network architecture purchased by a large Nevada state government entity.
) June 2, 2009 -- Chicago colocation provider Continuum Data Centers, LLC announced that it will open a new data center in Lombard, Illinois in June 2009. The company has chosen AboveNet, Inc.(NYSE: ABVT) to provide the backbone for its high-bandwidth transport from Continuum's Lombard 20,000 square foot data center to AboveNet's Oak Brook, Illinois point of presence (POP).
"This data center has been specifically designed to give organizations the service, support and pricing that has been missing in the Chicago suburban colocation market. We feel AboveNet is a key ingredient to the success of our data center. AboveNet provides exceptional services and is the backbone of our transport network," said Tom Chaffin, Managing Partner of Continuum.
) May 19, 2009 -- AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE: ABVT), a leading provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced the launch of its new Metro 40Gbps service in all 15 of its U.S. markets, providing the highest commercially available metro transport speed.
CalPOP has increased the amount of free bandwidth from 10 Mbps Full Duplex to 15 Mbps Full Duplex burstable to 100 Mbps of Ultra Premium Bandwidth : Level 3, AT&T, Cogent, Savvis, Mzima, Xeex & XO
) October 6, 2008 -- Pangaea Networks, a niche provider of Carrier Class Metro Ethernet transport services in the NY/NJ market, and Mobilitie, the premier owner and lessor of capital assets and infrastructure to global telecommunications companies, today announced they have entered into a strategic relationship for services in Manhattan.
) July 28, 2009 -- AboveNet Communications, Inc., (NYSE: ABVT) a leading provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced that it has signed a 10-year lease with Reckson, a Division of SL Green, to remain at its White Plains headquarters location.
Bill LaPerch, AboveNet President and CEO, said, "We are pleased to continue our commitment to the White Plains community with this lease signing. The New York area is one of our most important and robust markets of the15 major metro markets that we support. Our White Plains headquarters is strategically located to serve the needs of some of the world's most demanding customers."
) August 18, 2009 -- AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced that it is working with i/o Data Centers at its Phoenix ONE facility to provide an array of low-latency, gigabit speed networking services. i/o Data Centers provides data center solutions for some of the world's largest corporations and Web properties.
) June 25, 2009 -- AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE: ABVT) a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced its service expansion into Baltimore Technology Park's (BTP) data center. This capability is part of AboveNet's continuing investment in connectivity to premier in-market data center providers.
) January 27, 2009 -- CFN Services, the leader in the telecom knowledge based integration space, is participating in the Metro Connect 8th Annual Metro Connectivity and Local Access conference. CFN Services has been participating in this event for the past three years.
This year Mark Casey, President of CFN Services, will be participating as part of a panel for the session: Wireless Backhaul: Developing the Optimum Business Model and Capitalizing on New Opportunities - Wednesday, January 28, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. ET. This session will focus on the drivers and demand for wireless backhaul providers, evaluating the technologies available and the economics of enabling wireless backhaul.
) April 9, 2009 -- i/o Data Centers announced today the completion of a fiber expansion in conjunction with AGL (NYSE: AGL) into its new 530,000 square foot Phoenix ONE data center campus.
"We're pleased with AGL Networks' decision to extend their dark fiber network into our Phoenix ONE data center," said Matt Calhoun, chief technology officer, i/o Data Centers. "This additional capacity will offer our existing and future clients greater diversity, flexibility and lower cost connectivity options. We are glad to have AGL supplement our world class network story."
) August 11, 2009 -- AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, has attained the Metro Ethernet Forum's MEF 9 and 14 certifications for its full array of metro and wide area networking (WAN) services.
) October 21, 2008 -- American Fiber Systems (AFS), a leader in Las Vegas Ethernet and dark fiber, announced today it has been selected by Wynn Las Vegas to provide network connectivity between the resort property and its remote data centers and configuration and testing locations. The agreement allows Wynn Las Vegas access to AFS's highly redundant Ethernet over Fiber rings purposefully built to surround major metropolitan areas across Nevada.
LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com), one of Europe’s largest hosting providers, has in a six-month period increased the bandwidth of its hosting network from 500 to 750 Gigabits per second.
OC3 bandwidth, which is usually a high ticket item for many businesses is getting a reduction in pricing to help stimulate businesses nationwide. Will this help business communications systems expand?
) October 20, 2008 -- Netriplex, a leading U.S. data center provider, announced today the release of Uber Bandwidth (http://UberBandwidth.com), a new high-performance, premium Internet connectivity network designed specifically for Web 2.0. Uber Bandwidth costs $3.99 per megabit and is initially available at Netriplex's newest data center in North Carolina.
Korenix releases new JetCard 2154G flexible and high performance 4-port gigabit Ethernet Switch Card in PCI-104 format for providing high bandwidth data transmission to IPC devices.
) November 18, 2008 -- Aprius Inc., a provider of advanced computer interconnects; today announced a new product that provides a PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x16 interconnect over fiber optics, up to a distance of 100m. Utilizing an innovative optical transceiver technology, developed by Aprius, the PCIe card provides up to 80Gbps bandwidth between a host server and target system. Aprius will be demonstrating the technology at the Supercomputing '08 show in Austin this week.
) July 21, 2009 -- AboveNet, Inc., (NYSE: ABVT), a leading provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced that it is working with NYSE Euronext (NYX) to build fiber optic networks connecting NYSE Euronext's new data centers being built in the greater New York and London metropolitan areas.
) April 21, 2009 -- AboveNet, a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, has completed high-bandwidth connectivity for DoubleHorn Communications' new rich IP media platform. This platform will provide customers in DoubleHorn's Texas marketplace with high-speed IP media solutions.
) July 14, 2009 -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that it is expanding its relationship with i/o Data Centers, an Arizona-based provider of enterprise colocation and data center solutions.
) April 23, 2009 -- AboveNet Communications, Inc., a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, today announced its service expansion into Data Foundry's® Austin, Texas data center. AboveNet recently added Austin as its 15th major metro market and is part of AboveNet's continuing investment in its network facilities.
ipoque, the leading European provider of Internet traffic management solutions, today announced that it has released two new models of its PRX Traffic Manager series. PRX-1100 and PRX-2G Traffic Manager come with enhanced features, a more flexible configuration, and functionalities that are unique in this class: fiber-optical interfaces, integrated bypass and handling of asymmetric traffic.
) April 21, 2009 -- One of the world's leading flooring producers and distributors, Mohawk Industries, Inc. (NYSE: MHK), has now partnered with optical fiber network provider, American Fiber Systems (AFS), to improve their networking communications infrastructure by connecting to AFS's Metro Ethernet fiber network. A worldwide business that markets its products under the premier labels of Karastan, Ralph Lauren and Dal-Tile, Mohawk now utilizes the AFS fiber backbone to connect all IT functionality of Mohawk's Marietta location to the company's North Georgia data centers.
) October 13, 2009 -- Enhanced bandwidth options, greater speed, higher quality, and zero dropped voice over IP (VOIP) calls on failover are now available to CAIP members with CAIP's latest affinity program from TELoIP. CAIP members will incur no upfront fees for POP equipment with TELoIP's unmatched connection aggregation.
) September 25, 2008 -- Switch Communications, the leading disaster avoidance colocation and bandwidth interconnect facility in North America, has partnered with American Fiber Systems, (AFS) an award-winning high capacity bandwidth provider, to connect seven NAP (Network Access Point) locations with their new 400,000 square foot SuperNAP in Las Vegas, Nev.
) October 7, 2008 -- XMission recently completed significant upgrades to its network capacity. With these upgrades, XMission has increased its aggregate bandwidth to 13.15 Gigabits making it one of the largest diverse carrier networks in the Rocky Mountain region.
"With this latest upgrade to our Internet capacity, XMission has more than quadrupled its ability to provide Internet bandwidth to our subscribers," said XMission founder and President Pete Ashdown. "Internet bandwidth needs continue to climb and I am committed to surpassing the expectations of my customers."
) October 21, 2009 -- BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge solutions for the delivery of high bandwidth, multi-protocol services, announced today new OTN enhancements for the BTI 7000 Series' packetVX integrated packet modules for Ethernet and IP service delivery.
"These enhancements to BTI 7000 and our packetVX modules provide complete switching and aggregation for Carrier Ethernet Services (EPLINE, EPLAN, EVPLINE, EVPLAN) with full QoS/CoS which radically simplify Ethernet business services delivery, IP-based triple-play service networks, and wireless backhaul solutions." said Gary Southwell, CTO, EMEA, BTI Systems.
