FiberLight Releases New Cloud Connectivity Service

FiberLight Cloud Connect Enables Customers to Access Major Public Cloud Service Providers With Dedicated Connectivity


ATLANTA, May 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FiberLight, LLC, an industry leader in providing high-performance metro and long haul fiber transport services, today announces the release of its new service, FiberLight Cloud Connect. This new offering provides customers with dedicated connectivity to top cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, Oracle, Google Cloud and Rackspace.

Initially launched in the Washington, D.C. area, FiberLight’s Cloud Connect service will now extend across Atlanta, Dallas, Tampa, and Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia by adding supplementary capabilities and partnering with multiple cloud exchange providers based on market demand. With this new product, customers have the ability to decrease costs compared to on-premises and public internet cloud connectivity solutions, while simultaneously increasing application performance.  FiberLight Cloud Connect provides a reliable and dedicated path over FiberLight’s optical infrastructure to effectively connect to and access critical cloud data and applications with bandwidth capabilities from 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps.

“As an increasing number of enterprises move toward hybrid cloud architectures, finding an effective way to access and scale connectivity to various cloud platforms has become important to maintain business productivity while reducing costs,” explains Marc Dyman, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for FiberLight.  “Using FiberLight’s new Cloud Connect service, our customers will be able to access key cloud providers with dedicated fiber connectivity from commercial buildings in our core markets. FiberLight’s state-of-the-art fiber network will enable greater reliability and performance of critical applications in the cloud while increasing the volume of customers to our data center partners.”

To learn more about FiberLight and its services, visit www.fiberlight.com.

About FiberLight
FiberLight provides mission critical high bandwidth networks customized for clients’ specific requirements. FiberLight owns and operates deep fiber networks in over 30 metropolitan areas in the U.S. with a concentration in Texas, the Southeast, the Washington DC corridor, Mid-Atlantic markets and Bay Area. The growing network currently consists of approximately 14,000 route miles and 26,000 backbone access points. Customers include domestic and international telecom companies, wireless, wireline, cable and cloud providers as well as key players across enterprise, government and education. For more information, visit www.fiberlight.com.

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