We're raising the bar for other bandwidth providers in the area

Concentrated in West Jordan, one of the fastest growing cities in Utah, the expansion will connect the existing AFS fiber optical network to a major wireless provider in the area. This newly constructed ring offers over 500 fiber miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber to enterprise and carrier customers

AFS designed these new routes to be completely diverse from all other telecom providers in order to ensure that customers achieve true redundancy and the highest level of reliability. Connected to area data centers and rapidly growing commercial districts such as Jordan Landing, AFS is upgrading the network options currently available in this location.

"We're raising the bar for other bandwidth providers in the area," said Mike D'Angelo, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at AFS. "I believe every business in the Salt Lake City/West Jordan area that uses more than 10mb of bandwidth today will appreciate having a new, easy-to-do-business-with vendor to consider for highly reliable data connections."

From its inception, AFS has focused on bringing connectivity to cities that were under-served by other network companies. This new build is the only dark fiber network available in the West Jordan/Salt Lake City area, giving businesses a strong, private alternative to the local exchange carrier.

In addition to the Salt Lake City fiber optical network, AFS has dramatically increased the coverage and capacity of its metro networks by strategically investing in network expansion and improvements in Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Nashville, Cleveland and Atlanta markets.

About American Fiber Systems    
American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan fiber optic network infrastructure and wholesale transport services to carriers and large enterprises. Leveraging the wealth of underutilized dark fiber assets AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence, including ILEC central offices and wire centers; CLEC PoPs; Internet Service Provider (ISP) and data center locations; Inter-exchange "carrier hotels;" wireless providers and cable company head ends; and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed over 1,200,000 miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Atlanta, GA, Boise, ID, Carson City, NV, Cleveland, OH; Kansas City KS/MO; Las Vegas, NV, Lenexa, KS, Marietta, GA, Minneapolis, MN, Norcross, GA, St. Paul, MN, Nashville, TN, Overland Park, KS, Reno, NV, Salt Lake City, UT. AFS has over 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable market teledensity of over $9 billion in annualized telecommunications services. American Fiber Systems is a privately held venture-backed company.