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Lightower Fiber Networks

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Website
  
Lightower.com

Founded
  
2001

General counsel
  
David Mayer

Type
  
Privately held company

CEO
  
Rob Shanahan

CFO
  
Eric Sandman

COO
  
Jason Campbell

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Industry
  
Telecommunications IT Services

Areas served
  
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest US, London, Toronto

Key people
  
Rob Shanahan – President and Chief Executive Officer Eric Sandman - Chief Financial Officer Dave Mayer – General Counsel Jason Campbell - Chief Operating Officer Phillip Olivero – Chief Technology Officer Doug Dalissandro - Chief Revenue Officer

Subsidiaries
  
Veroxity Technology Partners, Inc.

Lightower Fiber Networks, founded in 2006, is a provider of telecommunications and IT services.

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Description

The company's network spans the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest United States including Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, and New Hampshire. Additionally, Lightower offers service in both Toronto and London. The network comprises over 33,000 route miles of fiber.

Lightower’s products include network and video transport, alternative access, nationwide long haul services, dark fiber, Ethernet, and cloud computing services. Lightower has built out access to over 22,000 service locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest including 275+ data centers and 7,000+ wireless towers.

Customers include Fortune 500 businesses, enterprise, carriers, financial services, media, healthcare, education, and government.

The company was acquired by Berkshire Partners in December 2012 when it also acquired Sidera Networks and announced plans to merge them under the Lightower brand. Its previous owners were M/C Partners and Pamlico Capital (the investing unit of Wachovia before its takeover by Wells Fargo. Those two companies had bought it from National Grid in 2007.

The company is currently title sponsor of the Lightower Conference Classic.

Services

  • Ethernet
  • Dark Fiber
  • Wavelengths
  • SONET
  • Colocation
  • Cloud Computing
  • Nationwide Long Haul
  • Video Transport
  • Managed Private Optical Networks (MPON)
  • Small Cell Solutions
  • Wireless Backhaul (FTTT)
  • Ultra-Low Latency Solutions

    • Network

  • Over 33,000 route miles of fiber
  • Over 40 connected financial exchanges
  • Providing access to over 22,000 service locations
  • Network within Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions (CT, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, IL, IN, VA, VT, Washington DC) along with London and Toronto
  • Owns 12 Carrier Class Colocation facilities- including Marlborough, Worcester, Providence & New York City (60 Hudson Street) and access to all major facilities in the Northeast
  • 7 Acquisitions in past six years
  • 920 Employees

    • 2007

  • National Grid Wireless- Acquisition (NEESCom)

    • 2008

  • Keyspan Communications - Acquisition
  • Hudson Valley DataNet - Acquisition

    • 2010

  • Veroxity Technology Partners - Acquisition
  • Lexent Metro Connect New York City based neutral telecommunications provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its own dark fiber network in New York, Northern New Jersey, and surrounding areas. - Acquisition
  • Open Access, Inc. - Acquisition

    • 2013

  • Sidera Networks - Merger

    • 2015

  • Fibertech - Merger
  • Colocation Zone - Acquisition

    • 2016

  • Datacenter101 - Acquisition

    • References

    Lightower Fiber Networks Wikipedia
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