BOXBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - January 14, 2010) - 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 southern New Hampshire. The network expansion will add
new routes and fiber density plus connectivity to data centers and business
centers
The New Hampshire network expansion will extend Lightower's network into
Salem, Manchester, Merrimack, Nashua, as well as neighboring towns in the
southern region of the state. New Hampshire customers will have access to
a full suite of Lightower solutions including dark fiber, Ethernet,
wavelengths, Internet access, and SONET.
New Hampshire customers will be able to leverage Lightower's
high-bandwidth, low-latency solutions to connect with any other area in the
Lightower footprint including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, the
Hudson Valley, Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.
Connecting Financial Exchanges and Data Centers
"This network expansion connects customers and critical data facilities in
southern New Hampshire with the entire Lightower footprint throughout the
Northeast including key inter-connect facilities, financial exchanges, and
data centers," explained Doug Dalissandro, EVP of Sales, Lightower Fiber
Networks.
Flexible Wireless Backhaul Solutions
"This all-fiber network expansion also demonstrates Lightower's on-going
commitment to providing flexible backhaul options for wireless carriers,"
stated Rob Shanahan, CEO, Lightower Fiber Networks. "Our all fiber network
allows wireless carriers to leverage dark fiber, wavelengths, Ethernet, and
Ethernet-over-SONET for their increasing backhaul bandwidth demands.
Lightower can provide one or more of these backhaul options in customized
solutions for carriers, and the network can be designed in any topology the
carrier needs."
Lightower New Hampshire Network Expansion Highlights include:
-- All Lightower services available to on-net buildings and facilities in
area towns including Salem, Manchester, Merrimack, and Nashua.
-- Dark fiber availability.
-- Ethernet service from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps.
-- Wavelength services to 40 Gbps.
-- Diverse routing and diverse entrance options may be available.
-- Custom designed building access, tower access, and facility access.
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 24x7x365 proactive 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 1 Mbps to 40
Gbps. Lightower also successfully tested 100G services on its network in
late 2009.
About Lightower Fiber Networks
Lightower Fiber Networks is a leading fiber network and broadband service
provider in the Northeast. Lightower offers over 4,400 fiber route miles
with over 1,650 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