FirstLight Fiber, a facilities-based telecommunications service provider operating in New York and Northern New England, has announced that Laconia School District in New Hampshire has selected FirstLight’s high-speed, fiber-based telecommunications services.
FirstLight will provide Internet to the entire school district, which consists of three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school and a regional technical center. FirstLight will also provide voice services to most of the facilities located in the school district.
Eligible for federal discounts for Internet and phone services, the Laconia School District sought a local vendor offering scalable, high-speed, fiber-based Internet at competitive pricing. Upon reviewing many vendor proposals, Laconia School District’s Network Manager, Jeffrey Twombly, ultimately selected FirstLight.
“Each day, our schools require more and more bandwidth, and we needed a network solution that could keep pace. FirstLight stood out among all of the potential vendors we reviewed for enabling the bandwidth expansions that we will inevitably need down the road, while also offering the high quality, localized customer service and support we need today,” said Twombly. “We serve approximately 2,000 students and part of ensuring their educational success is having reliable, high speed Internet from a provider upon whom we can rely and trust.”
“We are proud to support the networking needs of Laconia School District,” added Kurt Van Wagenen, president and CEO of FirstLight. “The amount of bandwidth required to allow students and faculty to seamlessly access the latest technologies and applications such as video streaming, online courses, webinars, etc. is not always easy for school districts to ascertain. FirstLight’s team of experts is available to guide schools through both the E-Rate process and to design the solution best suited to support their bandwidth needs.”
