FiberLight Provides Metro Ethernet Services for HostVentures, Allows Service Provider to Quickly Scale Bandwidth and Extend Network Reach

September 12, 2008 (PRLEAP.COM) Technology News
Atlanta, GA - September 12, 2008 - FiberLight, a leading provider of metro optical solutions, announced today that it is providing HostVentures, a key source for affordable high availability Internet infrastructure solutions, with metro optical Ethernet services to extend its network. The agreement provides HostVentures with improved ability to manage bandwidth and enhance network performance at key aggregation points in a manner that is cost efficient, scalable, and easy to administer.

"Our expertise and success can be attributed to removing the Internet infrastructure pains of our clients by increasing their scalability, stability, and margins while delivering best of breed solutions at an exceptional value," said Tim O'Rourke, COO of HostVentures. "The FiberLight LightSource Metro Ethernet enables us to further extend our reach in the greater Baltimore and Washington DC markets and deliver highly available managed hosting and co-location
solutions to our clients."

FiberLight Ethernet service is a dedicated solution for interconnecting traffic aggregation points and enterprise locations within the Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Atlanta, South Florida, Washington DC, Baltimore, and Tampa metropolitan areas. Based on standard Ethernet interfaces and protocols, the metro Ethernet service is cost effective and comes with a 5 9's reliability SLA. The solution is fully redundant and provides service providers with a reliable network that can be adjusted quickly to accommodate service speeds up to 10 Gigabits per second.

"Our clients use a variety of access technologies from a wide array of providers to continue to extend their IP access and network backbone. They use the FiberLight metro Ethernet solution in many locations because it makes accessing and expanding bandwidth easy," said Mike Miller, FiberLight's President and CEO. "FiberLight services perform for our customers – we enable them to quickly and seamlessly add bandwidth to support the rapid growth of network services today."

About FiberLight, LLC
FiberLight, LLC is an Atlanta-based company with fourteen years of experience in creating networks for some of the most demanding customers in the Telecommunications industry. Since its inception in 1993 as American Communications Services Inc. (ACSI), they have installed over 400,000 duct and fiber miles with over 5,300 access points, as well as hundreds of laterals off their backbone. As a leading provider of metro optical transport services and strategic network infrastructure, FiberLight designs, constructs and maintains an extensive Fiber Optic Infrastructure for a diverse customer base including local and long distance telecommunications carriers, International Carriers, Internet Service Providers, municipalities, utilities, Fortune 500 companies, school systems, local, city, and Federal Government entities. FiberLight fully owns a robust dark fiber network throughout eight primary metro markets – Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Dallas/Ft.Worth, TX; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Tampa, FL; South Florida; and Washington, DC. http://www.fiberlight.com

About HostVentures
HostVentures is a leading provider of affordable high availability Internet infrastructure for SMB's and enterprises through customer centric managed hosting and co-location solutions. Founded in 2002, the company empowers eCommerce, Internet service providers, health and financial customers with Web hosting, application hosting and best in class disaster recovery solutions. Headquartered in Baltimore with multiple datacenters, HostVentures leverages its mix of solutions and consultative advice to help its customers grow and maintain their critical Internet Infrastructure. For more information, visit www.HostVentures.com.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Patricia Mahony
FiberLight, LLC
Marketing Manager
(678) 347-9256
patricia.mahony@fiberlight.com