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DAY 1 THE INCOMPAS SHOW
Great Plains Communications Expands Path
Great Plains Communications, a middle-
mile and last-mile provider in Nebraska,
ended 2015 on a positive note as
it prepared to complete one of many recent
network expansion strategies: The acquisition
of Pinpoint Network Services and the Pinpoint
Broadband business units in February.
This was just one of many fber expansions
that Great Plains Communications completed
since the beginning of 2015. Its ongoing branding
message is: “A high-performing network comple-
mented by high-performing people.”
This message gained great momentum
throughout 2015 as the company racked up
fiber miles creating multiple diverse routes to
high-demand areas across the Midwest Region,
increasing its fiber network from 5,000 miles to
just over 8,000 in a period of 13 months.
Last April, the company completed an exten-
sive land and underwater boring project that
expanded its Nebraska network into South
Dakota, extending services into Minnesota. The
unique project took place at the Nebraska and
South Dakota state lines crossing the Missouri
River into Yankton, S.D. The extension provided
the company the opportunity to offer carrier
capacity to South Dakota and Minnesota, while
enabling Nebraska-based customers to extend
their reach into these new markets.
Also last year, the organization completed
construction on multiple, diverse, low-latency
fiber routes from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Denver,
crossing though the center of Nebraska. These
three redundant routes provide customers and
carriers access to various, truly diverse options
to connect from Wyoming into Nebraska, Colo-
rado, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
The next Great Plains Communications
expansion took place last October with another
diverse route addition into Des Moines, Iowa.
This route provides capabilities ranging from
low-end Ethernet to 100 gig both within market and
throughout the Plains region extending from the
Nebraska market into the Des Moines carrier hotel
connecting with regional and national carriers.
Also in October, the company expanded its
network by adding unique routes into Kansas
City, Kansas. This expansion differentiates Great
Plains Communications with truly unique routes
providing the capability to bypass Omaha and
extend within Nebraska and the surrounding
markets of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minne-
sota, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming on
multiple, diverse pathways.
“The significant 2015 investment into
ongoing network expansion by Great Plains
Communications has been in direct response
to the ever-increasing need for more band-
width throughout the nation, particularly in the
Midwestern region. Our company is committed
to continuing this expansion trend to meet the
needs of enterprise and carriers. We want to be
known as the network of choice for true diver-
sity and redundancy,” Great Plains Communica-
tions CEO Todd Foje said.
Great Plains Communications is the largest
privately owned telecommunications provider in
Nebraska. At the core of its service offering is
its extensive more than 8,000-mile regional fiber
network with community access rings, last-mile
and middle-mile solutions, fully supported by its
24x7x365 network operations center.
The company is financially strong with a
106-year history of providing reliable and inno-
vative solutions. Great Plains Communica-
tions prides itself on a progressive approach
to accommodating the needs of all regional
and national telecommunications carriers,
LECs, ISPs, wireless carriers and other service
providers utilizing superior custom engineering
and custom build strategies. o
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A lpheus Communications announced
today that its latest fiber network expan-
sion has added 2,400 near-net buildings,
reaching an additional 14,000 businesses in
Austin, Dallas and Houston.
Buoyed by solid demand for high-perfor-
mance fiber services, the company’s latest activ-
ities mark a major milestone of its fiber build-out
investment reaching more than 10,000 near-net
buildings and 65,000 businesses in Texas.
“The last couple of quarters were exception-
ally strong for Alpheus’ fiber network services,
largely due to the growth of Texas businesses
and ever increasing demand for network band-
width to satisfy voice, data, video and cloud
solutions,” said Scott Widham, CEO at Alpheus
Communications. “Whether we are there to
provide connectivity for our carrier customers
or to individual businesses, the need is always
the same – affordable, high-performance fiber
and network services.”
Alpheus’ most recent expansions include new
fiber routes near the University of Texas South-
western Medical Center in Dallas, plus growing
business, retail, restaurant and multifamily housing
areas in the uptown area. Alpheus also expanded
fiber connectivity near Dallas’ Love Field airport.
In Houston, expansion focuses on business
areas northwest of downtown Houston, east and
west of U.S. Highway 290.
In Austin, fiber connectivity expansion serves
a high-growth area near Loop 360/Texas Capital
Freeway and Bee Caves Road.
“Our ability to reach 10,000-plus buildings
with more than 65,000 businesses over fiber is
a huge milestone for Alpheus,” Widham added.
“But while we continue investing in our networks
and our team, we remain ever-focused on our
highest priority – making sure that Alpheus
customers get the personal care, responsive-
ness and networking expertise they need to
keep their businesses on track.”
Alpheus Communications is a provider of Texas
metro-regional fiber and networking solutions.
With owned facilities in Austin, Corpus Christi,
Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley
and San Antonio Alpheus is flexible, content-
neutral and responsive to customer needs when
low-latency and uptime are essential.
As the preferred fiber backbone for metro
Texas, Alpheus is in a unique position to support
mission-critical information technology functions
and cloud computing solutions through its resil-
ient SSAE 16-compliant data center platforms
for colocation and disaster recovery. o
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Alpheus Grows Network to Meet Demand in Texas