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Welcome Note
Welcome to the fourth issue of The Connection,
the Lexent Metro Connect quarterly newsletter. We have had an incredible year of growth; to meet the growing capacity demands of our customers, 2009 has been a year of major customized builds and low latency route expansions. Thank you for your continued trust in Lexent for your dark fiber needs.
Taking a quick look back, Lexent added extensively to our dark fiber network footprint throughout the New Jersey and New York metro areas. Some of the highlights include the addition of a new East River crossing via a new bore to Brooklyn, a second Hudson River crossing via the Amtrak tunnel, and adding the new Yankee Stadium to our on-net building list. In addition, we launched our New Jersey expansion initiative that focuses on extending our network to all of the major data center and collocation facilities between Manhattan and as far south as Piscataway. We are taking the “path less travelled” and offering the shortest (not easiest) routes between the sites in our quest to provide the lowest latency fiber paths available. In addition, we have continued work in the Wireless Service Provider sector, and have completed construction and deployment of the world’s largest Distributed Antenna System (DAS) network supporting two major cell phone carriers. 2009 was also a banner year in that we added our 100th commercial on-net building to our own dark fiber route. This is in addition to the dozens of carrier hotels also on-net.
Today's economic climate underscores the importance of telecommunications and its role in stimulating growth and efficiency within organizations. For example, financial institutions must remain competitive in an ever changing technology driven marketplace; a key differentiator for these firms is the need to interconnect their trading systems directly to the financial exchanges via the lowest latency connection available. Large banks to small hedge funds all want their trades at the front of the queue when it reaches the exchange. A 1-millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm, by one estimate. Lexent's focus on shortening routes between traders and the exchanges they trade over the past year is helping to serve New York's financial community through connections offering sub 100 micro-second latency from Manhattan to the major New Jersey ECNs.
Looking ahead to 2010, the Lexent team will continue its aggressive focus on addressing network connectivity needs for the enterprise business and financial communities with diverse, short path, dark fiber builds. Lexent will also place additional emphasis on our growth in New Jersey including completing Phase 2 of the New Jersey Initiative with dark fiber builds to Carlstadt, Piscataway, Carteret, Nutley, Clifton, Jersey City and Parsippany.
For further details on our financial expansion projects, please read on. Also please read our "New 'On-Net' Buildings" section of our newsletter for our latest enterprise building additions. If you require our most recent Network Maps and complete PoP list, please email us at info@lexent.net.
Our aim is to build a network that meets both current and future needs of our customers; therefore, we appreciate your thoughts. Join us for a dark fiber discussion on our Plaxo, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter groups.
In closing, thank you for helping us make 2009 a success. We wish all of our customers and partners a safe and happy holiday season and a prosperous New year. We are looking forward to great things to come in 2010!
Warm Regards,
Ray La Chance
President & CEO
Lexent Metro Connect Completes Low Latency Dark Fiber Route Between Equinix New Jersey Data Centers and NYC Carrier Hotels
Lexent is pleased to announce the completion of its low latency dark fiber route between Equinix New Jersey Data Centers and NYC Carrier Hotels. Custom, build-to-suit, truly carrier-neutral network solutions provide financial companies, enterprise businesses and carriers the opportunity to construct the shortest distance between two network points, reducing latency and enhancing reliability. This announcement comes on the heels of Lexent's recent low latency, dark fiber network expansion news into key New Jersey data center facilities.
Lexent's solutions leverage its already vast network footprint to analyze and plan
custom paths to shorten network distance, which ensures the lowest latency dark
fiber routes. With thousands of fiber miles, Lexent‟s ability to construct custom network paths provides companies that require dark fiber the ability to transform their communications infrastructure quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.
Simply shaving a few milliseconds off a dark fiber route can mean the difference
between thousands of dollars on each transaction. Today, Lexent‟s metro dark
fiber network already provides some of the lowest latency paths available (sub
100 micro-second) interconnecting all of the major New York City carrier hotels
and over 100 enterprise buildings to the top New Jersey data centers. Global
banks, financial exchanges and other enterprise clients, located within miles of
the Lexent network, can choose from existing or custom network solutions to for
ultra fast, secure connectivity in, out and throughout the region.
Want to know more? Read the complete media alert here.
For any further information or questions, please email info@lexent.net.
Lexent's Fast and Reliable Dark Fiber Services Continue Through NYC's Holiday Construction Embargo
Despite any obstacles that may arise, Lexent is committed to its 30-day timelines for dark fiber installations in Manhattan, even during New York City’s annual holiday construction embargo.
“Lexent Metro Connect owns and maintains its own dark fiber network, a distinct benefit to enterprise customers and telecom operators seeking the lowest latency, scalable and affordable network options and last-mile connectivity,” states Ray La Chance, President of Lexent Metro Connect. “Lexent’s dark fiber delivers virtually unlimited bandwidth in thirty days or less, regardless of the restrictions that commonly hamstring other players in the field.”
For the complete press release, click here.
Lexent in the Headlines
What do Phone+, New York Daily News, Yahoo! Finance, TMCNet, Forbes.Com and Telecom News Now all have in common? They are just a few of the media organizations that featured our latest news. In case you didn't catch our recent headlines, check out our news page.
Lexent welcomes Walter Cannon to the team. In December, Walter began his position as Director of Enterprise Sales for Lexent. Click here to read the Web Host Industry Review's article on Walter's new position.
Telecom Ramblings featured an article on Lexent's build of an ultra-low latency network for Equinix. Click here for the complete article.
Automated Trader covered our New Low-Latency route announcement between Equinix Secaucus Data Centers and NYC Carrier Hotels. Click here for the complete article.
Industry News
Our Industry News section is a list of recent headlines affecting the dark fiber and/or NYC Metro network market. Here are the news affecting our industry today:
November 2009 Issue
WIRED Magazine
Netscapes: Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit
November 12, 2009
Business Computing World
Internet Congestion Puts Customer Business at Risk for Nearly a Third of Enterprises, States Geo
November 02, 2009
Securities Industry News
Equinix Gets More Locales Closer to Exchanges
October 26, 2009
Forbes
National Dark Fiber Coming Through South Bend, Ind.
Missed the last issues of the Lexent newsletter?
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If you would like to include your company's news in this section for our next quarterly newsletter, please submit your news for consideration to info@lexent.net. We look forward to hearing from you.
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