BOXBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - October 30, 2009) - Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro
fiber network and bandwidth service provider serving the northeast United
States, announced today that it is expanding its
state-of-the-art, all-fiber network in northern New Jersey. The network
expansion will add new routes and fiber density plus connectivity to data
centers and financial exchanges while at the same time providing additional
capacity and dark fiber from New York City, through New Jersey, up to the
Hudson Valley.
The network expansion enables customers to access Lightower dark fiber and
managed services for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity in New Jersey
data centers, financial exchanges, and office buildings.
This latest Lightower network expansion increases capacity and dark fiber
from New York City, Weehawken, Secaucus, and Carlstadt, through northern
New Jersey, up to Mahwah, Sterling Forest, Wappinger Falls, Chappaqua, the
Hudson Valley, and the rest of the Lightower footprint including Boston.
Lightower customers have access in-to and out-of these expanded network
resources with a full suite of custom engineered solutions including dark
fiber, Ethernet, wavelengths, IP, and SONET.
Connectivity to Critical Financial Exchanges and Data Centers
"With this network expansion, Lightower has increased connectivity, or
added connectivity, to critical financial exchanges, data centers, and
commercial buildings in New Jersey. This network expansion demonstrates
Lightower's on-going commitment to dark fiber in addition to our managed
high-bandwidth services," stated Rob Shanahan, President and CEO of
Lightower Fiber Networks. "Lightower can now offer customers lit services
and dark fiber solutions in New Jersey as well as solutions connected to
other key locations in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley,
Boston, or the rest of our footprint."
Additional Dark Fiber and Geographic Diversity
In addition to connecting new financial exchanges and data centers,
Lightower has continued its unique approach to diverse fiber routing in its
network. Lightower's fiber network offers customers geographic diversity
for getting in and out of New York City, or for going around the city
entirely.
"With this network expansion, Lightower adds new capacity and dark fiber
inventory from New York City west into New Jersey and up into the Hudson
Valley. The design complements our existing routes heading east out of New
York City to Long Island and to the north into Westchester. This
flexibility allows Lightower to custom design competitively diverse routes,
fully protected routes, or routes that avoid New York entirely," added
Jason Campbell, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations.
Lightower New Jersey Network Expansion Highlights include:
-- All Lightower services available to on-net buildings in area towns
including Weehawken, Union City, Secaucus, and Carlstadt.
-- Increased capacity and dark fiber to 755 Secaucus Road in Secaucus.
-- Increased capacity and dark fiber to 300 Boulevard East in Weehawken.
-- New service and dark fiber to Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus.
-- New service and dark fiber to Carlstadt.
-- Direct and low latency connections from New Jersey financial exchanges
and data centers to other area sites including 111 Pavonia Avenue, 165
Halsey Street, 111 8th Avenue, 60 Hudson Street, and 32 Avenue of the
Americas.
-- DWDM Wavelength services to 40G.
-- Ethernet service from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps.
-- New and increased dark fiber availability.
-- Custom designed building access, dark fiber, and lit networking
solutions.
Since Lightower owns and operates its own network, including this new
network expansion, customers can be assured that they will continue to
receive excellent custom solution design and implementation in addition to
Lightower's 24x7x36 proactive network support.
Lightower specializes in providing customers with a broad range of high
bandwidth connectivity services as well as dark fiber and collocation
services. With the rapid growth of its customer base and increasing demand
for bandwidth, Lightower has upgraded its core network backbone to 40G and
is uniquely equipped to provide connectivity services from 10 Mbps to 40
Gbps (Lightower's network is also 100G ready).
About Lightower Fiber Networks
Lightower Fiber Networks is a leading fiber network and broadband service
provider in the Northeast. Lightower offers over 4,300 fiber route miles
with over 1,630 on-net buildings coupled with comprehensive transport and
alternative access solutions. Lightower's geographic footprint extends from
Boston and southern New Hampshire, to eastern New York State, northern New
Jersey, Long Island, and New York City. Lightower uniquely offers
customers geographically diverse routing and low latency network solutions
on an all-fiber optic network. Lightower Fiber is headquartered in
Boxborough, MA. For more information, visit
www.lightower.com or call
888-LT-FIBER.
Contact Information: For more information:
Chris Knight
Lightower Fiber Networks
(978) 264-6024
www.lightower.com