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3/4/2010FiberLight Promotes Key Execs to Capitalize on Unparalleled Growth
FiberLight, LLC, a leading optical networking provider, is positioning itself for another year of explosive growth with the promotion of two key executives. John Schmitt has been named Vice President of Business Development and will cultivate opportunities in new and existing market segments, while Joe Patton, named Vice President of Sales, will manage the national sales team covering 21 metro markets.
1/27/2010FiberLight Announces Construction of a New 100-Mile Network in the Baltimore/DC Market
FiberLight's new Baltimore network will augment FiberLight’s existing 123-mile Baltimore network, and 299-mile Virginia and D.C. networks by extending the optical backbone past the downtown business district to connect to the growing cities of Laurel, Columbia, Elkridge and Greenbelt, while providing greater diversity to the MD/D.C./VA region.
1/20/2010FiberTower Expands Fiber Network Reach Through Transaction With FiberLight
FiberTower Corporation (NASDAQ: FTWR), a wireless backhaul services provider, announced today that it has expanded its fiber footprint with a purchase of approximately 4,000 miles of dark fiber from FiberLight, a leading optical transport company.
1/19/2010FiberLight CEO Keynotes Metro Connect USA Conference in Miami
Michael P. Miller, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of FiberLight, LLC, an Atlanta-based leading provider of fiber optic network solutions, will keynote the 9th Annual Metro Connect conference January 26th. The topic “A Model for Growth: Key Drivers to Consider When Defining Future Success,” will highlight key factors required for the development and growth of a successful telecommunications company.
12/18/2009FiberLight Leads Canned Good Drive at Alpharetta Business Complex Benefitting Food Bank
FiberLight leads a canned good drive to encourage companies in FiberLight’s Alpharetta, GA business complex to provide food for the hungry during the holiday season.
12/3/2009FiberLight Provides Secure Ethernet Connections to Applied Innovations In Miami
FiberLight announced today that Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting applications, has signed a multi-year agreement to purchase a secure network connecting Applied Innovations to two state-of-the-art collocation facilities in downtown Miami.
10/29/2009 Atos Origin Selects FiberLight As New Diverse Optical Transport Provider
FiberLight, LLC, a leading provider of optical transport services, announced Atos Origin has selected FiberLight for a new core data center optical ring. The 10 Gig network offers scalable and complete diversity to ensure maximum uptime between multiple locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
9/22/2009FiberLight Increases Fiber Access In Dallas/Ft. Worth Market
FiberLight has extended its fiber inside the D.R. Horton Tower at 301 Commerce Street, Ft. Worth, Texas. This milestone represents the 69th building FiberLight connects to in the greater Dallas/Ft. Worth market, further enabling FiberLight’s customer access to 350 route miles of fiber throughout the Dallas/Ft. Worth/Plano marketplace.
8/27/2009FiberLight Chosen as Transporter of Choice for New Pryme Technologies Data Center
Pryme Technologies has selected FiberLight, LLC, a leading optical network solutions provider, to provide the network backbone for high bandwidth transport from Pryme’s new 72,000-square-foot Colocation facility in Ashburn, Virginia, to FiberLight’s Ashburn point of presence (POP) at Equinix.
8/4/2009FiberLight Raises $13 Million From CoBank To Fuel Smart Growth
FiberLight, LLC announced it has raised $13 million from CoBank in the company’s first ever debt offering in the capital markets. The debt is comprised of a $10 million note and a $3 million revolving line of credit.
6/18/2009FiberLight® Lights Up Baltimore Technology Park Customer Base in Northern VA and Metro Baltimore
Baltimore Technology Park selects FiberLight to provide a connection between BTP’s Data Center, the Greater Baltimore Business District and the Equinix Data Center Service Facility in Ashburn, VA.
6/9/2009ColoHouse in Miami Opens – Selects FiberLight to Offer Lit Redundant Network Capacity
FiberLight, a leading optical network solutions provider, announced it has pulled its fiber diversely into ColoHouse, Miami’s newest premier data center, to offer domestic and international customers a cost-effective optical networking choice when they collocate with ColoHouse.
5/12/2009FIBERLIGHT OPTICAL CONNECTIVITY TO LINK THREE DALLAS-AREA DATA CENTERS
Fiberlight dark fiber will now connect Telx’s Dallas facilities at 2323 Bryan Street and 8435 Stemmons Parkway to 1950 Stemmons Parkway
4/30/2009FiberLight® Offers Optical Connectivity To Waco Through Partnership With Clearview
FiberLight, LLC ®, a leading metro optical solutions provider, has entered into an agreement with Clearview to provide secure, high-speed optical transport to customers between Waco and other metro areas.
4/22/2009FiberLight Introduces LightSource Ultra
FiberLight developed LightSource Ultra to address the need for a network platform that does not go down by engineering the network to the specifications needed to ensure 100 percent reliability, to include dual fiber entrances with specific engineering distance requirements, equipment with card and power protection.
3/27/2009FiberLight® President Elected To COMPTEL Board of Directors
FiberLight President and COO Kevin B. Coyne was elected to the COMPTEL Board of Directors during their annual meeting in Dallas, Texas.
3/19/2009FiberLight Grows Texas Network With Waco Acquisition
FiberLight has extended its statewide presence in Texas with the addition of 20 miles of 96 count fiber network purchased through an agreement with Consolidated Communications, ranked 13th nationally among independent telephone companies.
1/21/2009Denver-Based Company Reaches East Coast
FiberLight provides Ethernet transport capacity in Miami and DC to WBS Connect, a Colorado-based global technology services company located in 32 markets worldwide.
12/8/2008FiberLight Extends BandCon's Presence
BandCon will deploy FiberLight’s LightSource® suite to extend its Miami data center to Ft. Lauderdale as the company continues to expand its national footprint. BandCon is a California-based content delivery service provider for companies with media rich web 2.0 sites.
10/30/2008FiberLight Standardizes With Fujitsu
FiberLight is deploying the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE® 7420 managed wavelength platform due to its ability to easily scale as FiberLight’s backbone bandwidth needs expand across the company’s multi-city networks. The company is also deploying the Fujitsu FLASHWAVE 4100 and FLASHWAVE 4500 multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs) for SONET and Ethernet connectivity between customer sites.
10/17/2008FiberLight Extends Ethernet Reach In South Fla.
FiberLight has reached an agreement with 1Vault Networks to provide optical transport capacity throughout the South Florida marketplace by connecting diversely routed fiber between 1Vault Network’s Category 5 Data Center in Ft. Lauderdale and global IP provider NTT America, located in the NAP of Americas, one of the premier data centers in the country.
9/30/2008FiberLight Announces Major Buildout
FiberLight, LLC has begun constructing 130 miles of diversely routed fiber from Chantilly to Culpeper, Virginia. The metro fiber network will extend the network reach of the greater Washington, D.C. area where FiberLight serves for metro optical transport. The expanded network will complement the existing network of over 300 miles of fiber connecting Baltimore, Southern Maryland, Washington, DC, and the Northern Virginia networks.
2/6/2008FiberLight Expands Fiber Optic Network in Tampa
FiberLight LLC, a provider of fiber based connectivity solutions for businesses and carriers, announced that it has completed the 106.51 mile expansion of its fiber optic network throughout the Lakeland, St. Petersburg, Largo and Clearwater area of the Tampa metro. This significant expansion complements the existing 103 miles of fiber throughout the Tampa market now totaling 209.51 route miles and 47,418.72 fiber miles. FiberLight's expertise and knowledge of metro networks as well as its breadth of experience in delivering sophisticated dark fiber, WDM, Metro Ethernet and SONET networks to some of the largest telecommunications customers in the nation makes FiberLight the choice supplier of network infrastructure.
10/15/2007FiberLight, LLC named Rising Star in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Georgia
FiberLight, LLC was recently selected as one of Deloitte's Georgia Technology "Rising Stars" for 2007. Deloitte's "Rising Stars" list recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in Georgia based on revenue growth over the past three years (2004-2006).
12/5/2006FiberLight, LLC Relocates Corporate Headquarters
FiberLight, LLC relocates its corporate headquarters to 3655 Brookside Parkway, Suite 550, Alpharetta, Georgia.
10/12/2006FiberLight, LLC Recognized As One of Deloitte's Georgia Technology "Rising Stars" for 2006
FiberLight, LLC was recently selected as one of Deloitte's Georgia Technology "Rising Stars" for 2006. Deloitte's "Rising Stars" list recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in Georgia based on revenue growth over the past three years (2003-2005).
10/10/2005FiberLight, LLC Announces the Roll Out of New Managed Service Products
FiberLight, LLC, formerly known as Xspedius Fiber Group, has rolled out a new product line – LightSource – that provides FiberLight customers with the first all-private fiber interface for DS-3 through OC-192 and GigE capacity.
6/7/2005FiberLight, LLC Buys Assets of Xspedius Fiber Group and Restructures Debt
FiberLight, LLC, a new entity created by the management team of Xspedius Fiber Group, announces today that they have acquired substantially all assets of Xspedius Fiber Group.