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24/7 Fiber Expands Its Dark Fiber Network in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area
| Source: 24/7 Fiber Network
BALTIMORE, MD--(Marketwire - January 12, 2010) - 24/7 Fiber Network,
Baltimore-Washington, D.C. metropolitan area's high capacity transport and
dark fiber network provider, today announces the expansion of its footprint
into underserved markets throughout the Delmarva Peninsula and into the
metro Washington, D.C. area.
This network expansion marks 24/7's commitment to providing cost-effective,
high capacity bandwidth solutions connecting Washington, D.C.'s metro area
with the Eastern shore. The company is constructing a dark fiber footprint
deep into the Delmarva Peninsula, a large area on the East Coast of the
United States occupied by portions of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. This
area, considered an underserved market, will soon be connected via 24/7's
high fiber count dark fiber network 100 miles into the region's main
business districts located in Salisbury, MD and Wilmington, DE. This
network will then continue another 100 miles into the Baltimore metro area
with connectivity to 24/7's extensive Baltimore City Central Business
District network footprint. From there it will connect to 24/7's long-haul
route directly into the Washington, D.C. market.
The network will deliver a fully diverse, high capacity 432-strand fiber
route, fulfilling a key communications gap in the region. The existing
infrastructure is antiquated and does not provide the route diversity and
high bandwidth capacity required by today's carriers, service providers and
enterprise businesses. This new, next-generation network will provide a
fully protected, metro area ring capable of serving modern communications
infrastructures as required by wireless 3G, 4G, tower backhaul providers
and carriers.
"This region is currently not capable of handling the growing bandwidth
demands required by businesses and wireless customers," comments
Christopher Morris, Vice President and COO of 24/7 Fiber Network. "This new
network will offer an alternative solution to traditional carriers, while
providing a more diverse and shorter path capable of handling high
bandwidth applications."
Carriers, wireless operators, service providers and network operators
throughout the region will be able to interconnect to 24/7's network from
its main facility located in the carrier hotel at 111 Marketplace in
Baltimore, MD. The 24/7 facility is a 5,000 square foot Central Office
grade location providing fully-dedicated colocation, managed services and
24/7 support, while offering cross-connections to major Tier 1 and Tier 2
network providers connected to the building. For information about 24/7's
new network build, please visit www.247fibernetwork.com or email
info@247fibernetwork.com.
ABOUT 24/7 Fiber Network
24/7 Fiber Network, LLC is a privately held, Baltimore-Washington, D.C.
metro area dark fiber provider. The company designs, constructs and
provides custom, private, optical, high capacity transport and network
solutions to carriers, service providers and enterprise businesses
throughout the region, providing national reach to local, regional and
International carriers and enterprise businesses. 24/7 offers a wide
variety of network configurations including ringed, point-to-point,
point-to-multipoint and mesh topologies. Formerly known as 24/7 Cable, the
company changed its name to 24/7 Fiber Network to further clarify its core
objective: to provide leading, dark fiber network solutions to a variety of
major data and telecommunication carriers while providing a carrier-neutral
interconnectivity point to bring their network to the world. For more
information about 24/7 Fiber Network, please visit www.247fibernetwork.com.