Please look below for a list of our latest press releases.
| 8/26/2010 |  | FiberLight Expands Northern Virginia Network to Charlottesville, VA |
| FiberLight, LLC announced today it has begun construction of a 46-mile direct connection from Culpeper, Virginia to Charlottesville, Virginia. The completely underground fiber optic network will use enhanced fiber for lower latency and provide a diverse route to companies in Charlottesville seeking mission critical, high capacity optical transport to the greater Washington D.C. area. |
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| 8/17/2010 | | ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION CONNECTS FACILITIES ON FIBERLIGHT’S FIBER OPTIC NETWORK |
| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has deployed FiberLight’s LightSource© Ethernet service to provide a full Gig of transport capacity to multiple facilities across the Atlanta metropolitan area. The end-to-end customized network solution is built on a redundant, dedicated, multi-node ringed platform to create a secure Private Network. |
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| 8/6/2010 | | FiberLight Provides Amazingly Fast Turnaround To Meet Service Delivery Strategy for Sago Networks |
| FiberLight, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission-critical, high performance fiber optic networks, turned around a customized optical transport solution in record time for Sago Networks, a Tampa-based Internet solutions company. In just 24-hours, FiberLight deployed a 10 Gig DWDM network connecting Sago Networks to two Miami data centers, Terremark’s NAP of the Americas and Miami Data Vault. |
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| 7/15/2010 | | FiberLight Receives an Additional $22 Million Debt Offering from CoBank |
| FiberLight, LLC announced today it has completed a private debt offering of an additional $22 million. CoBankwill provide debt comprised of a $20 million note and a $2 million increase in the revolving line of credit. The additional debt offering, together with the initial offering in 2009, represents a combined value of $35 million in funded or committed capital. |
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| 6/25/2010 | | FiberLight Increases Depth of Metro Footprint In Atlanta and in Surrounding Suburban Markets |
| FiberLight, LLC announced today it has expanded its presence in the heart of downtown Atlanta as well as suburban growth areas in Fulton, Gwinnett and Cobb counties. FiberLight, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission-critical, high-performance fiber optic network solutions, is enhancing its presence in the Atlanta region in response to a growing demand from large enterprise companies, city governments and carriers for a secure and redundant fiber optic network offering. |
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| 6/17/2010 | | FiberLight Recognized With Fast 40 Award by Georgia Trend Magazine |
| FiberLight announced today it has been named one of Georgia’s fastest growing companies by Georgia Trend magazine. FiberLight, which is headquartered in Atlanta, ranked 5th among small mid-market companies for the 2010 Georgia “Fast 40,” presented June 17 by the Association for Corporate Growth Atlanta and Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, LLP. |
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| 6/9/2010 | | FIBERLIGHT SELECTS MRV CARRIER ETHERNET SYSTEMS TO EXPAND ITS WHOLESALE AND ENTERPRISE ETHERNET SER |
| FiberLight©, LLC, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission-critical, high-performance fiber optic network solutions, announced today it has selected MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. and its OptiSwitch® Carrier Ethernet access platforms, as the foundation for its carrier Ethernet fiber optic access network that delivers optical wholesale and business Ethernet services to customers in 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S. MRV Communications, Inc. |
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| 6/3/2010 | | FiberLight Builds New Versatility into LightSource Product Line For Virtual Network Operators |
| FiberLight, LLC announced today it is developing a new product to offer a virtual metro network service for Virtual Network Operators (VNO’s) looking to expand their footprint from a single hub in a market to multiple aggregation points and end user locations cost effectively. The new offering, available with a 1 or 10Gig backbone, allows the VNO to optimize the network and aggregate Ethernet and TDM traffic onto the ring from four to six network onramp points per market and access over 90% of the businesses within a metropolitan area. |
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| 5/24/2010 | | FiberLight Continues to Accelerate Growth Through Channel Partnership With AVANT Communications |
| FiberLight, LLC, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission-critical, high-performance fiber optic network solutions, announced today it has added AVANT Communications as a Master Agent in its National Channel Partner and Agent program. FiberLight is building a strong relationship with AVANT through the program, which provides partners ongoing pricing and technical support for opportunities in the sale of FiberLight’s LightSource® product line and dark fiber services. |
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| 4/30/2010 | | FiberLight Expands Mission-Critical High Performance Fiber Facilities in South Florida |
| FiberLight, one of the nation’s largest mission-critical, high-performance optical networking companies, is building capacity and extending its reach in South Florida. FiberLight has constructed new diverse optical network linking Miami to Kendall, Florida, and is increasing its points of presence with the addition of 15 new buildings and laterals in the greater Miami metro from downtown Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton to West Palm Beach. The new expansion increases the FiberLight network in South Florida by an additional 32 miles. |
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| 4/28/2010 | | Horizon Data Center Solutions Powers Enterprise Colocation Enabled by FiberLight |
| FiberLight, LLC, a leading optical networking provider, was able to accomplish the impossible when it turned up a 10 Gig Ethernet network with dedicated IP Services in less than a week for Horizon Data Center Solutions, a fast growing facilities-based colocation and IT service company headquartered in Dallas. The new infrastructure will enable Horizon’s clients to efficiently connect to their Tier III+, SAS 70 II data centers from any location and will provide a 5 9’s fully redundant network architecture to ensure optimum uptime. |
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| 4/19/2010 | | FiberLight Executive Speaks About Trusted Connections With The Cloud |
| Cloud computing is revolutionizing the marketplace. Billion dollar businesses are being created from the cloud in the likes of Salesforce.com, Amazon and Google and traditional enterprise are struggling to identify how they maximize the value of the cloud and participate in the economic benefits the cloud provides while protecting their vital interests. Trust in the cloud starts with the interaction between the enterprise and the public or private cloud from which they are sending and receiving data. |
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| 3/4/2010 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 1/27/2010 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 1/20/2010 | | FiberTower 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. |
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| 1/19/2010 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 12/18/2009 | | FiberLight 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.
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| 12/3/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 9/22/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 8/27/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 8/4/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 6/18/2009 | | FiberLight® 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. |
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| 6/9/2009 | | ColoHouse 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. |
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| 5/12/2009 | | FIBERLIGHT 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 |
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| 4/30/2009 | | FiberLight® 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. |
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| 4/22/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 3/27/2009 | | FiberLight® 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. |
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| 3/19/2009 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 1/21/2009 | | Denver-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. |
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| 12/8/2008 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 10/30/2008 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 10/17/2008 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 9/30/2008 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 2/6/2008 | | FiberLight 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. |
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| 10/15/2007 | | FiberLight, 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). |
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| 12/5/2006 | | FiberLight, LLC Relocates Corporate Headquarters |
| FiberLight, LLC relocates its corporate headquarters to 3655 Brookside Parkway, Suite 550, Alpharetta, Georgia. |
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| 10/12/2006 | | FiberLight, 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). |
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| 10/10/2005 | | FiberLight, 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.
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| 6/7/2005 | | FiberLight, 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. |
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