Dallas, Houston, Denver and Los Angeles get more metro fiber
Atlanta-based Birch Communications is steadily expanding its metro fiber assets, most recently in major markets of Dallas and Houston, Texas; Denver and Los Angeles.
The additional fiber connects 46 buildings to metro fiber rings. Birch presently connects 686 buildings nationwide that comprises more than 20,000 businesses.
In the Dallas area, long a North American telecom and enterprise hub, Birch has deployed a dedicated 209-mile dark fiber ring. The company connects about 1,500 buildings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the fourth-most populous area in the country.
“Birch is aggressively investing in expanding metro fiber in several key markets precisely because there is already high customer demand for our services in those locations,” Christopher Ramsey, SVP and chief sales officer, said.
“Bandwidth consumption is on the rise, and with our extensive, premier metro fiber network customers can access superfast connections with speeds up to 500 Mbps to meet their growing business needs. Our high-capacity, low-latency network is exactly what our customers need to maintain their competitive edge.”
In Los Angeles, the expansion will cover an additional 22 buildings. It’s part of Birch’s goal to “analyze and implement new market opportunities in tier 1 and 2 markets in large, multitenant buildings and facilities in 2015,” according to company reps.
David Gibson, VP of business development, said targeting metro markets will “accelerate business development and therefore opportunities for innovation, expansion and e-commerce.”
“The benefits of Birch’s exclusive Metro-Fiber network are more valuable now than ever before. Expanding our network presence enables Birch to offer services that address all of a customer’s connectivity needs – voice, data and the cloud.”
Birch has been in the metro fiber network business for about two decades; the company has more than 31,000 fiber route miles in 22 domestic markets.
Birch provides customers with high-speed Internet as well as IP-based voice, data and cloud services.
The company hopes to light more than 800 buildings by the end of 2015.
