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Lightower Expanding Services at 60 Hudson in New York City
1,600 Square Foot Site Offers Carrier-Class Facilities at Major Telco Hub
| Source: Lightower Fiber Networks
NEW YORK CITY, NY--(Marketwire - December 1, 2009) - Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro
fiber network, bandwidth, and collocation service provider serving the
northeast United States, announced today that it is expanding its
collocation facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York City.
Due to increased demand for its collocation and fiber networking services
at this major communications hub, Lightower is developing an additional
1,600 square feet of carrier-class space. The new Lightower space offers
racks, cabinets, and cages to collocation customers. Carrier-class
amenities include raised floors, AC or DC power, state-of-the-art HVAC,
backup power, and security.
Collocation customers will also have access to a complete suite of
Lightower fiber networking services including dark fiber, wavelengths,
Ethernet, IP, SONET, and TDM.
"60 Hudson Street is one of the cornerstones of the telecommunications
infrastructure in the northeast. Our new collocation space will enable
customers to utilize Lightower fiber services to connect with other area
carrier hotels, financial exchanges, or any other location within the
Lightower footprint," explained Doug Dalissandro, Lightower Executive Vice
President of Sales.
Lightower also offers collocation customers easy access to other carriers
located within 60 Hudson Street, or any other carrier hotel or data center
in the area. Lightower provides direct intra-facility connectivity
services to over ten other major carriers at 60 Hudson, in addition to
direct access to the facility meet me rooms.
With Lightower's dense network in the New York metro area, 60 Hudson
collocation customers can also directly connect to any of the other
important regional facilities including 111 Eighth Avenue, 32 Avenue of the
Americas, 75 Broad, 755 Secaucus, 111 Pavonia, 300 Boulevard East, and 165
Halsey.
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 1,630 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.