Lightower Expanding Services to Equinix NY4 Data Center
February 03 2010 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro fiber network,
bandwidth, and colocation service provider serving the northeast
United States, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of
global data center services, announced today that Lightower is
expanding its network services into the Equinix NY4 International
Business Exchange (IBX®) data center in Secaucus, NJ.
Lightower is increasing its existing services into the Equinix
NY4 data center to accommodate growing demand for high bandwidth
Ethernet, wavelengths, and dark fiber. In addition to increased
capacity, the network expansion will also offer customers optimized
routes from the Equinix NY4 data center to other data centers and
financial exchanges in the area.
“Equinix is building a robust community of financial data
centers in the New York area. As part of that, Lightower has seen
increasing demand for networking services into and between
Equinix’s NY IBX centers,” explained Doug Dalissandro, Executive
Vice President, Sales, Lightower. “We will continue to expand our
dark fiber, Ethernet, wavelength, and other networking services in
these facilities to meet the demand.”
Lightower offers Ethernet speeds up to 10 Gbps and wavelengths
up to 40 Gbps. Solutions can be designed with low latency or ultra
low latency optimizations. Lightower’s additional dark fiber into
the facility will offer customers the ultimate option for latency
management.
By expanding into the Equinix NY4 IBX data center, Lightower
will be able to offer its low latency, high bandwidth solutions to
the growing number of colocation customers in the facility. These
customers include clients in financial services, media, e-commerce,
and other industries.
“Lightower’s expansive reach of dark fiber between New England
and New York offers the benefits of fast response times and
improved network connectivity to Equinix’s financial services
customers looking to optimize the performance and reach to key
financial markets,” said John Knuff, director, Business
Development, Equinix. “Lightower also affords the connectivity and
expanded reach to our market participants located off-premise.”
With Lightower’s dense network in the New York metro area,
Equinix's NY4 IBX customers can also directly connect to Equinix's
other regional IBX data centers within its NY campus.
About Lightower Fiber Networks
Lightower Fiber Networks is a leading fiber network and
broadband service provider in the Northeast. Lightower offers over
4,400 fiber route miles with over 1,650 on-net buildings coupled
with comprehensive transport and alternative access solutions.
Lightower’s geographic footprint extends from Boston and southern
New Hampshire, to eastern New York State, northern New Jersey, Long
Island, and New York City. Lightower uniquely offers customers
geographically diverse routing and low latency network solutions on
an all-fiber optic network. Lightower Fiber is headquartered in
Boxborough, MA. For more information, visit www.lightower.com or
call 888-LT-FIBER.
About Equinix Financial eXchange
Equinix IBX data centers support a global financial community of
buy-side and sell-side firms, hedge funds, execution venues, market
data suppliers, network providers and trading technology vendors,
all interconnected inside a neutral, open marketplace. Equinix has
become the data center for the well-connected, offering low-latency
connectivity and colocation capabilities via facilities around the
world. Learn more at: http://financial.equinix.com.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center
services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world.
Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network
service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to
protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix
operates 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers
across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the
investor relations page of its website located at
www.equinix.com/investors. We encourage you to check Equinix’s
website regularly for the most up-to-date information.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering
Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to
the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in
recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete
any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time
in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which
are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume
any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained
in this press release.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2024 to Jul 2024
Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jul 2023 to Jul 2024