BALTIMORE, MD – (BUSINESS WIRE) – FiberLight, LLC, a leading optical
transport solutions provider, announced that Baltimore Technology Park (BTP)
has selected FiberLight to provide secure Ethernet capacity to connect BTP’s data
center with Greater Baltimore’s Business District and the Equinix Data Center
Service Facility in Ashburn, VA. Equinix
is considered one of the largest IP Peering locations on the East Coast.
FiberLight’s Ethernet offering will provide BTP clients with a direct,
affordable, low-latency route to Equinix.
“It’s a win-win solution for Baltimore Technology Park and FiberLight,”
said Mike Miller, FiberLight CEO.
“Connecting BTP to downtown Baltimore and Ashburn, VA allows us to
extend our footprint, while BTP benefits from FiberLight’s robust core metro
network and our 24/7 network monitoring capabilities to proactively address any
issues.”
FiberLight’s secure 400-mile metro optical ring architecture in the
DC/VA/MD region will enable BTP customers to further protect critical IT
systems and stored data from natural disaster and unpredictable outages. BTP’s customer base will benefit from
dedicated connectivity to the major IP peering points, data centers and carrier
hotels located in Baltimore, Washington DC and Northern Virginia at speeds up
to 10 Gig.
“We want to meet client needs for additional bandwidth capacity without
sacrificing information transport security and design flexibility,” BTP
President Jim Weller said. “FiberLight offers a cost efficient method to
provide our clients with the bandwidth capacity and speed businesses require while
reducing the risk of lost data.”
FiberLight’s LightSource Products will allow BTP’s customers’ access to
a host of Major IP Providers, Media/Content Delivery Networks and WAN networks doing
business in the Mid-Atlantic area, the United States and around the world.
About Baltimore Technology
Park (BTP)
BTP is a 30,000-square-foot, purpose-built facility that provides the highest
level of security and redundancy for businesses of all types and sizes who
require reliable data center services. BTP’s corporate headquarters are located
at 1401 Russell Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, visit Baltimore Technology Park at www.baltimoretechnologypark.com.
About FiberLight
FiberLight provides
Ethernet, Wavelengths, IP, SONET, and Dark Fiber optical transport network
solutions to telecom carriers, government, large enterprise, content providers
and web centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000-mile network in
key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in Georgia, Florida,
Washington DC, Texas, Virginia and Maryland as well as long haul options to New
York, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and
Phoenix. For more information, visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.