INCOMPAS Spring 2017 - Day 1 Show Daily

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THE INCOMPAS SHOW DAY 1
FirstLight Partners with f6networks to Provide Network
Transport Between U.S. and Canada
FirstLight Fiber, a fiber-optic bandwidth
infrastructure services provider operating
in Northeast, has developed a relation-
ship with f6networks, the owner and operator
of a high-capacity fiber network that provides
transport between New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
and Quebec in Canada to locations throughout
the northeast U.S. FirstLight and f6networks are
now able to provide lit services to customers who
have both a U.S. and Canadian presence.
“Our relationship with f6networks is mutu-
ally beneficial, as we are now able to serve
more customers in more places,” said Kurt Van
Wagenen, president and CEO of FirstLight.
“Coupled with our recent acquisitions of Oxford
Networks and Sovernet Communications, the
relationship with f6networks further enhances our
capabilities to the benefit of our customers.”
The relationship began when FirstLight and
f6networks collaborated on a solution for a large,
industrial enterprise customer in Canada. First-
Light offers a connection from Calais, Maine,
to St. Stephen, New Brunswick. This allows the
companies to design a complete end-to-end solu-
tion, coupled with cost-effective, wholesale pricing
and a reliable circuit to support the customer’s
call-center operations. After this successful initial
collaboration, the companies pursued leveraging
their relationship further.
The FirstLight network has 9,600 route
miles of fiber and more than 5,000 lit locations,
with access to 20,000 near-net locations, in
six states with connectivity to Montreal. First-
Light offers significant fiber density to ensure
complete solutions that address all of the
customers’ locations and business needs. p
Global Capacity, VeloCloud
Partner on SD WAN
G lobal Capacity has partnered with Velo-
Cloud Networks to offer managed SD
WAN services.
These services will enable businesses to
efficiently route data across their WAN by first
choosing the right access types based on the
performance needs of individual locations and
applications, then define unique policies to
automatically prioritize traffic. It also unifies
network management across disparate network
technologies (Ethernet, MPLS, broadband
or LTE) whether these are provided over the
Global Capacity network, a competing network
or a hybrid of the two.
“The Global Capacity One Marketplace
platform is purpose-built to deliver simple, cost-
effective and high-performance Hybrid networks
that connect enterprises to key cloud destina-
tions,” said Sanjay Uppal, CEO and co-founder
of VeloCloud. “Global Capacity’s use of VeloCloud
(See Global Capacity Story, page 11)