June 22, 2011
Adds three new markets and 25 market-capable sites between Dallas and El Paso

SEATTLE, WA – June 22, 2011 – 360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of telecommunication services, today announced availability of a new 640 mile route between Dallas and El Paso capable of supporting up to 100G line rates.

This expansion extends the company’s footprint in support of the region’s telecommunications, cable, content and cloud services providers’ growing need for capacity and connectivity for their end users.  These customers can now access 360networks’s more than 18,000 route miles to over 60 tier 1 to 4 markets across 22 states and British Columbia.  The expansion also creates a highly redundant path for the Dallas market, as well as throughout Texas, Colorado and New Mexico.

“Adding the Dallas to El Paso route is a natural progression of our strategy to take customers deeper into the geographic areas we serve while increasing value through redundancy and scalability,” said Brady Adams, chief technology officer for 360networks.  “Look for 360networks to continue to drive value for our customers by expanding our network and services.”

For this expansion 360networks installed Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) technology enabling Waves, IP, Ethernet, and TDM access in Abilene, Ft.Worth, and Midland.  The route also covers 25 new market-capable sites including Aledo, Arlington, Baird, Barstow, Big Spring, Cisco, Eastland, Ft.Hancock – Alamo Alto, Ft Hancock – McNary, Kent, Loraine, Merkel, Monahans, Odessa, Pecos, Santo, Sierra Blanca, Socorro, Stanton, Strawn, Sweetwater, Toyah, Van Horn, Weatherford, and Westbrook.

“Our next-generation optical technology is part of a converged backbone solution, which means that 360networks can intelligently manage traffic and support their customer’s new bandwidth-hungry applications, such as live-streaming high-definition video, over a fully redundant network,” said Robert Vrij, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Americas region. “The scalability and flexibility of our DWDM network will help 360networks support capacity and connectivity needs as it continues to expand across Texas and throughout its geographic area.”

June 8, 2011

360networks is expanding switched Ethernet edge into 30+markets in Western US in 2011


SEATTLE, WA – June 8, 2011 – 360networks, a facilities-based wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, VoIP and Local Access services, today announced Montana Opticom as the first customer to deploy its new Ethernet Virtual Private Line, or EVPL, service (announced earlier this year as Layer 2 Ethernet). The 360networks EVPL service gives Montana Opticom a more scalable, cost effective and reliable connectivity alternative than traditional TDM or other legacy connectivity solutions.

“To provide high speed connectivity and link our two networks in Montana, there were specific best-in-class technical requirements we needed to achieve, all of which 360networks’ EVPL met,” said Jim Dolan Jr, Montana Opticom, president . “In addition, it was significantly less expensive than the legacy solutions we were considering, and came with built-in diversity, helping us extend the value of our American Recovery and Reinvestment Act award, and helping our customers quickly and cost effectively gain access to connectivity services on par with major metropolitan areas.”

360networks developed its EVPL service for communication service providers, Internet service providers (ISPs), cloud infrastructure and storage providers, co-location providers, content providers, content distribution networks, cable MSOs, and others needing access to a high performance, Layer 2 network.

360networks’ EVPL service is fully mesh-protected for ubiquitous connectivity between major carrier hotels, data centers, Internet Exchanges, and neutral peering points across 360networks’ entire 18,000 route mile footprint. It eliminates the mileage associated with traditional private line services. Instead, customers pay a monthly recurring charge per port to connect locations in a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configuration. Because 360networks owns and operates the network its EVPL customers benefit from a level of reliability and control not available from shared network configurations. Combined, these factors enable customers like Montana Opticom to decrease network complexity, improve and optimize capacity, and reduce costs.

“Our EVPL service gives Montana Opticom a unique state-of-the-art, high speed connectivity solution on our purpose built Layer 2 network,” said Mike Kozlowski, director of product management for Ethernet services at 360networks. “The configuration helps them cost effectively meet their customers’ needs while improving network performance.”

About Montana Opticom

Montana Opticom, based in Gallatin Gateway, Montana, provides high-speed Internet, digital telephone and digital television services across Montana. Montana Opticom’s fiber optic network delivers Internet upload and download speeds of up to 100mbps, allowing residential and business subscribers to participate equally with the most advanced urban areas in the Internet world of business, healthcare, education and entertainment. Montana Opticom’s Gallatin Gateway Broadband Project will create a 153 square mile fiber optic network in Gallatin County, from Manhattan to Gallatin Gateway, under an award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. For more information, please visit www.mt-opticom.com.

About 360networks

360networks is a full service wholesale provider of Private Line Transport, Ethernet, IP, VoIP, and Local Access (T1/DS3) services, on its wholly-owned fiber optic backbone. Its facilities-based network provides deep coverage, spanning 18,000 miles to tier 1 to 4 U.S. markets (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Financially stable and a CLEC in 36 states, 360networks helps the nation’s voice, data and web-based application and service providers to quickly pursue next generation strategies, migrate from legacy networks, grow into new markets and services, and increase network diversity. www.360networks.com

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