AboveNet Expands Fiber Optic Network in Las Colinas to Serve Financial and Enterprise Customers
DALLAS, June 1 -- AboveNet, Inc., a provider of fiber based connectivity solutions for businesses and carriers, today announced that it has completed the expansion of its fiber optic network throughout the Las Colinas (Irving, TX) area to provide Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) services to financial and enterprise customers, supporting their mission critical applications. AboveNet's expertise and knowledge of the WDM platform and technology as well as its breadth of experience in delivering sophisticated WDM networks to some of the largest financial customers in the country makes AboveNet the choice supplier of network infrastructure. AboveNet's responsiveness to customer requests and ability to provide a customized network that enables its customers' storage and business applications to communicate within the Metro Area Network in their native language or protocol are hallmarks of AboveNet's business model. AboveNet's network design provides its customers with lower latency and reduced operating expenses while providing excellent resiliency.
"AboveNet's investment in expanding its network in the Las Colinas area will provide the businesses there with network diversity and alternatives to the incumbent LEC," said Bill LaPerch, President and CEO of AboveNet. AboveNet has recently joined the Technology Leadership Council of Irving as well to continue to bring awareness to the business residents of Las Colinas of the network options that are now available to them. As the demand for business continuity evolves, many companies want a multi-carrier approach for N+1 redundancy and the AboveNet Las Colinas network expansion now provides these companies greater options.
AboveNet has a strong reputation for delivering dark fiber and WDM private networks to the Fortune 500 community that reduce a customer's overall network operating expense and deliver greater scalability and flexibility on a private dedicated infrastructure. AboveNet is laser-focused on delivering fiber-based connectivity solutions to its customers and the latest Las Colinas expansion and AboveNet's involvement with Las Colinas Technology Leadership Council reinforces its commitment to reach its enterprise and carrier customers.
About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet, Inc. provides fiber connectivity solutions for businesses. Its private optical network delivers key network and Tier I IP services in and among 14 top U.S. metro markets and London. AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government. Please visit our website at www.above.net/ for more information.
Source: AboveNet, Inc.
CONTACT: Michael A. Brown, Vice President, Marketing of AboveNet, Inc., +1-212-803-5016, mbrown@above.net
Web site: www.above.net/
