May 2009 Archives

The Allied Fiber team has spent some quality time in Washington DC over the past few weeks and it was time well spent. We had 18 meetings with Members of Senate and Congress and their staff covering the States and Districts that Allied Fiber will touch in our Phase 1 build-out between New York, Chicago and Ashburn, VA.

The mission was to get the message out - which we did. The message is that Allied Fiber intends on creating several short and long term jobs while enabiling everything that relies on communications networks by creating the critical fiber, tower and colocation infrastructure that communications networks need to succeed. 

We came to the meetings to deliver our message along with our NTIA Comments. Our summary is:

Over the past ten years, we have learned that knowledge is power. Broadband networks deliver knowledge.

Dark fiber is not the mystery it once was. The black magic is gone. Equipment vendors and new technology have made it a much simpler process to build and manage a layer 2 network and the word is out. The transport business is also growing as result for just as those that once bough leased lines now seek their own fiber there are others that once only bought IP transit and are now leasing layer 2 transport.