FiberLight has passed a critical milestone in its Texas Expansion Project, completing 4,500 miles of its planned 8,000-mile buildout across the central and western regions of the Lone Star State.
FiberLight intends to install an additional 2,000 route miles in 2014 that will bring much-needed high-speed data transport services to underserved areas and will continue to support wireless backhaul demands throughout the state.
Included in FiberLight’s 2013 activities was a 400-mile expansion of its Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area network. The DFW expansion connects 300 locations, including local data centers that will increase customer connectivity options and allow customers greater access to cloud-based services. It has also reached smaller communities across Texas, including: Ballinger, Jasper, Happy, Shamrock, Reagan and Oilton so far.
Once this phase of the expansion is complete, the FiberLight network within the state of Texas will span more than 11,000 miles and bring high-bandwidth applications to carrier, enterprise and government customers. Additionally, the expanded FiberLight network will connect major peering locations in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio to the state’s quickly-growing new metro areas, including Amarillo, Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Abilene, Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen, Beaumont and Temple.
“To date, we have partnered with more than 40 local suppliers of goods and services to design and construct our expanded network,” says Ron Kormos, president of Texas operations for FiberLight. “We will have directly contributed $300 million dollars to the Texas economy, not including an indirect spend by our employees and partners, by the time this project is completed.”
