Lightower Fiber Networks
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Telecommunications IT Services |
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Areas served
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Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest US, London, Toronto |
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Key people
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Rob Shanahan – President and Chief Executive Officer Eric Sandman - Chief Financial Officer Dave Mayer – General Counsel Jason Campbell - Chief Operating Officer Phillip Olivero – Chief Technology Officer Doug Dalissandro - Chief Revenue Officer |
| Website | Lightower |
Lightower Fiber Networks, founded in 2006, is a provider of telecommunications and IT services.
The company's network spans the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest United States including Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, and New Hampshire. Additionally, Lightower offers service in both Toronto and London. The network comprises over 33,000 route miles of fiber.
Lightower’s products include network and video transport, alternative access, nationwide long haul services, dark fiber, Ethernet, and cloud computing services. Lightower has built out access to over 22,000 service locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest including 275+ data centers and 7,000+ wireless towers.
Customers include Fortune 500 businesses, enterprise, carriers, financial services, media, healthcare, education, and government.
The company was acquired by Berkshire Partners in December 2012 when it also acquired Sidera Networks and announced plans to merge them under the Lightower brand. Its previous owners were M/C Partners and Pamlico Capital (the investing unit of Wachovia before its takeover by Wells Fargo. Those two companies had bought it from National Grid in 2007.
The company is currently title sponsor of the Lightower Conference Classic.
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