FiberLight has provided fiber optic network services to carrier, enterprise, government and education customers in Maryland for over a decade and recently completed a major expansion of its footprint now stretching in excess of 600 route miles from Baltimore to Washington DC to central Virginia. FiberLight has been one of the most active builders of new underground fiber infrastructure in the Mid-Atlantic over the past 5 years and as a result earned another marquee customer with the contract award from the National Institute of Health.

“FiberLight will provide turnkey Ethernet transport services to the National Institute of Health for the delivery of data between the NIH facilities. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. The architecture of FiberLight’s flagship offering, LightSource Ethernet, will employ MEF compliant E-Line logical design with no oversubscription at any point on the network ensuring optimal performance, latency and security. Performance matters at FiberLight and to our customers. In the case of the federal government, no other provider in the Mid-Atlantic has the reach, architecture and fiber count to customize purpose built networks and deliver secure optical connectivity the way FiberLight can in terms of network capabilities and value. FiberLight has served the federal government for over a decade in a contract and support agnostic approach supporting our partners that are system integrators or telecommunications carriers, and the direct users with the best network available for the application, leveraging the contract vehicle preferred by the client.” said Ben Edmond, President of Sales & Marketing at FiberLight.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information
Ben Edmond
Ben.Edmond@fiberlight.com
President, Sales & Marketing
(678) 366-0093

“FiberLight has positioned itself to help wireless carriers deliver the bandwidth needed for today’s evolving network, leveraging our dense fiber to deliver high capacity diverse Ethernet connectivity. Wireless backhaul is one of the most important segments in the fiber marketplace and over the past 5 years, FiberLight has invested in ensuring we are a key participant in this growth segment.” said Michael P. Miller, CEO & Founder of FiberLight.

Mr. Miller continued, “FiberLight’s core business has always centered around building great fiber optic networks and delivering large amounts of diverse and mission critical bandwidth to our most demanding clients in a carrier neutral way. We continue that model and look towards our growth in the southeastern portion of the United States as a direct result of that steadfast, strategic focus. Over the years we have been able to quickly adapt to emerging market demands by strategically reallocating resources toward those initiatives that provide the most positive impact to our client base. FiberLight continues that trend by investing in the wireless backhaul space in 2012. There has never been a better time to be in our business. Profitable demand continues to emerge from multiple points in the marketplace, allowing FiberLight to continue its track record of, not only being uniquely positioned to deliver what our clients ask for, but consistently exceeding their expectations.”

“FiberLight’s networks typically reach farther within the metro area and have more fiber strands available allowing us to uniquely delivery custom network designs that ensure optimal performance on the network for our customers. Over the past 12 months FiberLight has maintained an average core network performance exceeding 99.999% availability with the ability to deliver new network infrastructure up to and including 40 Gig transport services. This network reach, capacity and capability have allowed us to earn major contracts such as our win in Tampa where we will deliver Ethernet connectivity to over 40 towers.” said Mr. Miller.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths, IP, and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 29 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information
Ben Edmond
Ben.Edmond@fiberlight.com
President, Sales & Marketing
(678) 366-0093

“As one of the largest fiber expansion efforts in the country, FiberLight has undertaken a project that will bring new fiber infrastructure throughout West Texas, extending over 3,000 route miles and being lit by new state-of-the-art optical transport equipment for the delivery of high speed Ethernet connectivity. FiberLight’s initial focus will be to provide needed high speed Ethernet connectivity over its fiber to large enterprise, government and carriers (including wireless providers) throughout the region,” said Michael P. Miller, FiberLight’s CEO and Founder.

“Investing in new fiber infrastructure with projects that have good long-term returns, great growth prospects and a lack of current infrastructure is what FiberLight has done for the past decade, and this marquee project will continue that strong track record of success we have demonstrated in the market. The initial project will connect over 275 wireless towers and over 100 buildings, accelerating our growth once again.,” said FiberLight Chief Development Officer Ron Kormos.  His team will bring their 30-year plus track record of building great fiber networks to deliver for FiberLight again and ensure the build is done on time and with the high quality for which FiberLight is known.

FiberLight plans to have construction crews working continuously in West Texasfor the next 18 months and will be working with local economic development organizations, municipalities and key customers to accelerate the development potential of this major investment in new fiber optic infrastructure.

“FiberLight introduced an innovative product strategy to secure this new build out in West Texas, which is our largest to date. The strategy first developed in 2011 by FiberLight drives value to customers through enhanced scalability and control, improving the cost of bandwidth including incremental costs and creates the operating platform to drive revenue and product capabilities for our clients, not available through other traditional connectivity options. This project is a testament to that strategy, and we are excited to see the positive impact on FiberLight and for our clients.” said Ben Edmond, President of Sales & Marketing for FiberLight.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information
Ben Edmond
Ben.Edmond@fiberlight.com
President, Sales & Marketing
(678) 366-0093

“FiberLight is pleased to offer customers dedicated access to the AWS cloud with secure and highly reliable connections,” said Ben Edmond, FiberLight’s President, Sales & Marketing. “The relationship with AWS extends FiberLight’s network service platform leadership, enabling secure, low latency, high bandwidth connectivity that drives cost savings across the IT spend of organizations. We simply focus on providing a better way to connect to applications enterprises need to run their operations more effectively.”

With FiberLight’s state-of-the-art network architecture, customers can securely connect to the AWS cloud to take advantage of the highly reliable, scalable, low-cost IT infrastructure platform. Customers will benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing with no long term commitments and the ability to instantly scale resources up and down based on demand.

By bypassing the public Internet via a direct connection between the client and AWS over FiberLight’s secure network, clients can transport mission critical data at a faster rate while experiencing less congestion. Customers can connect to AWS Direct Connect with circuits of up to 10 Gbps. AWS customers can benefit from FiberLight’s 500,000 miles of high-capacity fiber, offering secure connections to thousands of facilities in growing markets in the Southwest, South and Mid-Atlantic regions.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information
Pat Mahony
pat.mahony@fiberlight.com
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256

 ATLANTA, GA – FiberLight, LLC, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission critical, high performance fiber optic networks, announced it will pave the way for North Georgia Networks to reach the world along 108 miles of FiberLight’s privately owned high speed, fiber optic backbone. FiberLight will bridge a segment of its own robust network in Alpharetta, GA with NGN’s planned 1,000-mile network to provide a diverse and secure network from North Georgia to metro Atlanta and to connect NGN to 56 Marietta, a Telx facility in downtown Atlanta.
The 56 Marietta location is home to 35,000 connections between carriers, enterprise and service providers. The Telx facility provides carrier neutral access to providers and services that can carry North Georgia Networks well beyond the Southeast.

The $42 million North Georgia Network broadband infrastructure project has the potential to reach 42,000 households, 9,200 businesses and 245 institutions in the eight-county North Georgia region, including public schools, universities, hospitals and government facilities, officials said.

“We are excited about our partnership with FiberLight because it will enable NGN to support underserved segments of North Georgia’s population with broadband infrastructure, while stimulating job growth and business in the eight counties the NGN project represents,” said Bruce Abraham, President and CEO of North Georgia Network. “FiberLight offers the speed and secure access our communities need, while providing the network diversity and neutral access to connect to other providers and services.”

FiberLight’s Atlanta network is constructed in an optical ring topology using state-of-the-art, high fiber count cable built diverse from the local exchange carrier (LEC), while providing diversity and redundancy for a more secure and resilient network.

“Because our network averages 432 fibers in each ring, more than 10 times an average telecom provider, we can offer limitless bandwidth, low latency and scalable solutions based on customer need,” said Michael P. Miller, FiberLight’s CEO and Founder. “Offering a customized network solution of this magnitude to North Georgia Networks is an exciting opportunity for FiberLight, and we look forward to a long and successful relationship in the years to come.”

About The North Georgia Network (NGN)
The North Georgia Network (NGN) is a non-profit company that is building a 1,000-mile fiber optic network across North Georgia. The network will provide access to affordable, reliable broadband at speeds as fast as those anywhere in the world. NGN was chartered by economic development professionals in Lumpkin, Dawson, Union and White Counties, together with Blue Ridge Mountain EMC, Habersham EMC and North Georgia College & State University. The goal: to stimulate business and job growth by improving the broadband infrastructure in North Georgia. For more information visit http://northgeorgianetwork.com/.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information Contact:
Pat Mahony
pat.mahony@fiberlight.com
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256

Dallas, TX – Cologix™, a network neutral interconnection and colocation company, today announced that FiberLight, LLC, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission critical, high performance fiber optic networks, deployed network equipment within the Cologix Dallas Infomart datacenter (1950 North Stemmons Freeway) making its full portfolio of services available via Cologix’s Meet-Me-Room.

“Establishing our presence in the Cologix Meet-Me-Room in the Dallas Infomart is another critical step in FiberLight’s strategy to exceed customer expectations by increasing the number of colocation facilities and other points of presence FiberLight can offer to our clients in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metropolitan region,” said Ben Edmond, FiberLight’s President of Sales and Marketing. “We are pleased with the opportunity to partner with Cologix and appreciate the local, dedicated support we receive from their Dallas team. “

FiberLight, LLC is the foremost provider of mission critical high performance networks in the Southern U.S., exclusively serving enterprise, carrier, government and service providers.  FiberLight’s infrastructure uniquely combines privately owned state-of-the-art high fiber count, diverse metro fiber networks built in a ringed topology with a highly interconnected carrier, colo and cloud neutral business strategy, which delivers a unified platform for the future. In addition, FiberLight deploys a full suite of mission critical service offerings including Ethernet, Dedicated IP, Wavelengths, SONET and dark fiber.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer our Dallas customers’ access to one of the nation’s high performing networks and are proud that FiberLight has chosen Cologix for their interconnection and colocation needs,” stated Grant van Rooyen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cologix. “Welcoming sophisticated carriers like FiberLight to our Dallas community is part of a key initiative to maximize the value of carrier neutrality for our customers by providing ever broadening connectivity choices.”

Cologix Dallas is a 28,000 square foot facility located in the Dallas Infomart, which was acquired in December 2010. The Infomart is the preeminent carrier hotel in one of the most robust communications markets in the U.S. The data center has long been a facility of choice among carriers, ISPs and content providers based on its dense connectivity and excellent operating record dating back to 1999. Cologix provides interconnection and colocation services from their datacenter in the Infomart and operates a robust Meet-Me-Room within the facility.

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

About Cologix, Inc.

Cologix, Inc. is a network neutral interconnection and colocation company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, that provides massively scalable interconnection services and secure, reliable colocation services in densely connected, strategically located facilities.  With more than 200 network choices and nine prime interconnection locations, Cologix currently serves more than 400 carrier, media, financial services and enterprise customers. The company’s experienced team of communications infrastructure professionals is committed to providing its customers the highest standard of local customer support.

For more information about Cologix, please visit the company’s website at www.cologix.com.

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FiberLight Media Contact:
Pat Mahony
pat.mahony@fiberlight.com
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256

Cologix Media Contact:
Julia Kendall – Cologix
Office:   +1 720.940.2559
Mobile: +1 303.522.9758
julia.kendall@cologix.com

“We are pleased to receive Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ ranking two years in a row,” said Michael P. Miller, FiberLight’s CEO & Founder. “Our continued success has been driven by our ability to deliver what our customers need and truly impact the business with a better platform, whether the customer is an enterprise company, Federal Government organization or a wholesale provider. We’ve accomplished this success while maintaining strict financial discipline, which has allowed us to grow our reach and product portfolio by delivering even more value to our customers and shareholders.”

“FiberLight, like all 2011 Technology Fast 500™ companies, has excelled in fostering innovation and channeling it into spectacular growth — against the backdrop of one of the most challenging economies in history,” said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader, Deloitte LLP. “Deloitte recognizes FiberLight for its remarkable accomplishment.”

“We are pleased to honor FiberLight as a 2011 Technology Fast 500 company,” said Mark Jensen, managing partner, technology and venture capital services, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “As one of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, FiberLight has demonstrated excellence in technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth.”

About Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™
Technology Fast 500, which was conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP, a subsidiary of Deloitte LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies – both public and private – in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2006 to 2010.
In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues.

Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years, and be headquartered within North America.

About FiberLight
FiberLight is a premier provider of mission critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options at layer 1, 2 and 3 to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information About FiberLight
Pat Mahony
Marketing Manager
FiberLight, LLC
(678) 347-9256

To be selected as one of the fastest-growing, privately held companies in America for the Inc. 500/5000 award, companies must show extraordinary year-over-year growth for a minimum of 3 years. FiberLight grew by 330% in the three-year period ending in 2010.

In a letter acknowledging the award, Inc. magazine Editor in Chief Jane Berentson wrote, “Your extraordinary success is truly worth celebrating,” Ms. Berentson stated. “With this accomplishment, FiberLight joins the rarified company of enterprises that have appeared on the list multiple times, many of which have grown to become national icons.”

FiberLight has diversified its product line to include a full portfolio of LightSource® products serving government, enterprise, education, telecom carrier and web-centric businesses requiring high capacity, end-to-end network solutions. Earlier this year, FiberLight launched its LightSource Dedicated IP product, coupling the launch of the new service with an enhanced focus on delivering private fiber solutions with the latest cloud enablement network services.

“In our experience, we have found that innovation, risk taking, careful planning, resource management and outstanding people and assets are hallmarks of all successful companies,” Michael P. Miller, CEO and Founder of FiberLight said. “FiberLight has continued to evolve, creating jobs for our communities and value for our customers, despite the surrounding economy. We believe our ability to remain successful while maintaining a high EBITDA and low debt ratio would not be possible without the support and commitment of our customers, partners, vendors and employees, and we are grateful for their efforts.”

About FiberLight
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information
Pat Mahony
pat.mahony@fiberlight.com
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256

ATP will announce on November 8, 2011, who among the field of 75 enterprise and industry professionals will receive the 2011 Telecom Professional of the Year award as well as awards in the categories of Leadership, Innovation and Enterprise.

“On behalf of myself and FiberLight, I would like to express deep gratitude to ATP and the Atlanta telecom community for this nomination,” Mr. Coyne said. “FiberLight takes great pride in calling Atlanta home; we appreciate the recognition and the opportunity to acknowledge the important role ATP serves as a networking and education organization for the telecommunications industry.”

Mr. Coyne joined FiberLight’s former parent company, ACSI NT in 1998. Under Mr. Coyne’s progressive leadership, FiberLight was restructured in 2005 from ACSI NT into FiberLight, a leading provider of high bandwidth solutions.  Mr. Coyne earned a Master of Science degree in Taxation at University of Baltimore and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at Towson State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Coyne is a board member of COMPTEL, a telecommunications industry organization. Additionally, Mr. Coyne serves on the advisory committee for telx, a worldwide interconnection and data center company, and Mr. Coyne is a board member of the National Kidney Foundation, Georgia and Alabama chapters.

Earlier this year, FiberLight was ranked 3rd among small mid-market companies for the 2011 Georgia Georgia Trend “Fast 40,” presented by the Association for Corporate Growth Atlanta Chapter (ACG) and the Georgia Fast 40 Founder and Diamond sponsor Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, LLP.  In 2010, FiberLight received recognition by Georgia Trend magazine when it was ranked 5^th among Georgia’s small mid-market companies.

About FiberLight
FiberLight is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information About FiberLight
Pat Mahony
pat.mahony@fiberlight.com
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256

Roswell, GA – FiberLight, LLC, one of the nation’s leading providers of mission critical, high performance fiber optic networks, announced today that it is building a dark fiber network to connect all municipal buildings in the city of Roswell, GA. The diverse network is constructed in a ringed topology for added security and reliability and connects the city’s park facilities, fire stations, transportation, police station and water management system.

“Because FiberLight has such a deep and robust network footprint in the city of Roswell, we were able to quickly upgrade their infrastructure to provide unlimited high capacity bandwidth for the city’s facilities. In addition, more fiber has been allocated to future proof the network in anticipation of greater bandwidth requirements as those needs arise, “said Ben Edmond, FiberLight’s President of Sales and Marketing.

Roswell officials approved construction of the private network as a secure way to control IT infrastructure costs, improve network design as well as to attract new employers to this growing southern city.

“As the eighth largest city in the state of Georgia, we understand the value and importance of investing in state-of-the art telecommunications infrastructure to better serve our residents and to provide an added incentive for prospective companies considering relocation here,” said Roswell Mayor Jere Wood. “FiberLight has become a valuable partner in this process as they were able to construct a flexible, cost-effective solution that met our design and service delivery requirements in the timeframe we required.  We look forward to working and growing with FiberLight in the future.”

ABOUT ROSWELL, GA
Founded by Roswell King in 1836, the city of Roswell became an official city in 1854. Encompassing 42 square miles in north Fulton County, Georgia’s eighth largest city has a $56 million operating budget and is home to 88,346 residents. The city has received numerous awards including being ranked one of the safest cities to live in the United States according to City Crime Rankings.  For more information about the city of Roswell, please visit: www.roswellgov.com.

IT Inquiries
Mishelle Rutledge
Director of IT
City of Roswell, GA
770-594-6401
mrutledge@roswellgov.com

ABOUT FIBERLIGHT
FiberLight, LLC is a premier provider of mission-critical, high performance networking services including Ethernet, Wavelengths and Dedicated IP, SONET and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions. Solutions are provided to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web-centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 fiber-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 23 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options at layer 1, 2 and 3 to major commercial hubs throughout the country. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

For More Information About FiberLight
Pat Mahony
Marketing Manager
FiberLight, LLC
(678) 347-9256