With a major build across the DC corridor, Lightower Fiber Networks makes a bold move with the completion of its 400-mile all fiber network expansion, which delivers bandwidths of up to 100 Gbps throughout the region. High bandwidth-intensive sectors including enterprise business, education, government, and wireless carriers require 
reliable, secure and high capacity infrastructure. Lightower responded to the market demands in a big way by lighting key buildings, data centers and carrier hotels throughout the DC, VA and MD region.
According to Bell Labs, metro area traffic will increase by 560% by 2017. With this build, Lightower is poised and ready to address the increased demand for IP video, cloud services, data storage and backup requirements of today’s thriving businesses and technology companies.
“D.C. is home to world-renowned universities, health care organizations, multinational organizations, law firms, the federal government, military agencies and so much more,” explained Rob Shanahan, CEO of Lightower. “With traffic volumes growing so quickly in the D.C. metro area, we invested heavily here in order to connect more locations and ensure that we are prepared to serve the growth that we are seeing. This is an aggressive build that delivers on the need for more high performance bandwidth, and comes at a time when organizations rely on networks more than ever before to connect with the world and participate in it.”
As an added competitive advantage, Lightower also offers the only direct route between Ashburn, VA and New York / New Jersey that is geographically diverse from the I-95 corridor. Lightower’s all-fiber network services include Ethernet, wavelengths, dedicated Internet access, data center and cloud connectivity solutions, video transport, and wireless backhaul.
To learn more about Lightower’s connectivity to over 130 data centers, 40+ financial exchanges, 115+ carrier hotels and central offices, and 18 Lightower colocation facilities, please visit www.lightower.com.
