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Lightower Fiber Networks Acquires Datacenter101
July 2016 by Marc Jacob
Lightower Fiber Networks announced that it has acquired Datacenter101 – a data center provider in Columbus, Ohio. Datacenter101 is strategically located in downtown Columbus at 101 East Tower Street. The facility is expertly engineered for redundancy, reliability, and scalability for small, medium and large businesses within the region. Datacenter101 offers both enterprise-class data center services as well as carrier-class colocation services.
Datacenter101’s next-generation data center is built to meet all industry standards, with all power, networking, and critical systems designed to N+1 architecture, ensuring no single points of failure. The state-of-the-art data center offers seamless connectivity to a diversified group of service providers, as well as access to Lightower’s all-fiber network and its 15,000+ service locations throughout the Midwest, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic. With flexible cage and cabinet options, the facility offers scalable and customizable enterprise and carrier options.
The new Lightower data center offers:
• Approximately 10,000 sq. ft. of premier data center space offering scalable and customizable leases of cages and cabinets
• State-of-the-art infrastructure and systems
• A commitment to environmentally-friendly colocation strategies
• Downtown Columbus location that is easily accessed via any major freeway
• 24/7 access and security, with real-time critical systems monitoring
• N+1 power and UPS, N+1 cooling, both highly scalable
• Customers have access to the entire Lightower Network including 15,000+ service locations, 250+ data centers, 40+ financial exchanges, and 500+ carrier hotels and central offices
• Customers have access to the entire portfolio of Lightower networking services and solutions, including Ethernet, wavelengths, dark fiber, private networks, Internet access, cloud connectivity, video transport, and more.
With over 30,000 miles of fiber network in 17 states across the Midwest, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic, Lightower has the most dense all-fiber network and fiber-connected building count of any broadband service provider in the area. Lightower offers all-fiber networking solutions from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps, in addition to dark fiber.
