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THE INCOMPAS SHOW
FirstLight Fiber Provides Backbone
for INdigital’s e-911 Network
, a fiber-optic bandwidth
nfrastructure services provider operating
n New York and Northern New England,
announced that INdigital has selected its internet
and data center services to support INdigital’s
contract to provide a new, statewide emergency
services network for New Hampshire.
Because of the critical nature of this
network, INdigital looked to FirstLight to
provide a fully redundant, diverse internet
connection and data center services at First-
Light’s Manchester, N.H., data center.
“In our search for a provider who could
offer redundant and diverse access to the
public safety answering points (PSAPs) in
New Hampshire, and convenient intercon-
nection to the other service providers in the
marketplace, we found that FirstLight was the
only company equipped to meet all of these
requirements,” said Eric Hartman, executive
vice president of Business Development for
INdigital. “Additionally, its world-class data
center facility enabled close proximity to
our customers and meets all of our network
connectivity requirements.”
INdigital functions as a 9-1-1 system service
provider to deliver next-gen 9-1-1 services, with
expertise in the integration and operation of
legacy and next generation 9-1-1 networks.
By providing the IP transport network that
makes up the core of the New Hampshire
9-1-1 network, FirstLight enables INdigital to
connect its core routing nodes (one of which
is located in FirstLight’s Manchester data
center) with call taking PSAPs in Concord and
Laconia, N.H.
The IP network also is used to transport 9-1-1
calls and associated location information from
the routing node to the call taking PSAPs.
“When it comes to life, safety and emer-
gency services, having a highly resilient
network is critical. FirstLight’s IP Network is
designed in a manner which creates seamless
failover in the event of a network impairment,”
stated Kurt Van Wagenen, president and CEO
of FirstLight. “We are honored to have been
selected by our region’s leader in next-gen
9-1-1 services, INdigital.”
To ensure high uptime, FirstLight’s IP
network employs redundant equipment,
connections and power supplies. The IP
network is deployed regionally in a ring archi-
tecture with each region capable of operating
independently. Internet traffic is redundantly
routed over our fiber network with the ultimate
survivability of two separate meshed core
networks, allowing for no single point of failure
within that core.
FirstLight offers a comprehensive portfolio
of advanced telecommunications services
and knowledgeable staff experienced in
working with enterprise, government agen-
cies, healthcare and educational institutions
to provide the most effective, efficient commu-
nications tailored for each company and
segment it serves. p
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W ave, a gigabit fiber and broadband
services company, announced it
raised $125 million to continue
the accelerated growth of its West Coast
fiber network, bolstering its commercial
services division and its Wave G residential
Gigabit service.
The financing for the expansion consists of
an add-on to an existing first lien term loan.
Wave will apply the funding to the
continued build-out of its fast-growing fiber
network in Washington, Oregon and Cali-
fornia, along with future acquisitions. The
company’s growth is accelerating on several
parallel fronts:
• It has more than 1,000 fiber construction
projects underway to serve business and
residential customers on the West Coast.
• Its commercial services division is the
company’s fastest-growing area, with
year-over-year revenue increases of
more than 25 percent, serving customers
ranging from small businesses to larger
enterprises, government agencies,
medical and education campuses, and
telecom providers.
• New construction is adding more than
100 route miles of owned fiber each
month to Wave’s network of more than
5,500 route fiber miles, serving markets
from the San Francisco Bay area north to
the Canadian border.
• The company continues to expand its
Wave G residential Gigabit service,
by launching in San Francisco and
Portland, Oregon, complementing its
leadership in Seattle. Wave G recently
was recognized as the fastest internet
provider in Seattle by
and is the largest Gigabit service
provider in Seattle and the surrounding
communities of Bellevue, Redmond,
Kirkland and Everett, Wash.
• It launched Wave G Business to provide
symmetrical Gigabit internet connectivity
to companies often found on the ground
floors of Wave G-serviced residential
apartment buildings.
• It rolled out 250 Mbps internet connectivity
and a larger standard data plan for its
traditional residential subscribers, Wave
introduced an optional unlimited data plan.
• It announced plans to move into new
corporate headquarters in Kirkland, Wash.,
more than doubling its space as an anchor
tenant in the Kirkland Urban project slated
for completion in 2018.
• It raised $130 million in funding in May
2015 and was recapitalized for more than
$1 billion in November 2012. Wave has
deployed proceeds from those financing
events toward new fiber construction,
select acquisitions, and the overall accel-
eration of Wave’s growth.
Wave delivers a range of solutions for busi-
nesses, including custom fiber networks, high
capacity Internet access, data transport, voice
services and colocation hosting. p
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Wave Raises $125 Million for Expansion