| September 5, 2007, SALT LAKE CITY, | | | | "We’re raising the bar for other |
| UTAH—American Fiber Systems (AFS), a | | | | bandwidth providers in the area," said |
| leading provider of private optical networks, | | | | Mike D’Angelo, Vice President of Sales |
| announced today the successful completion of | | | | and Marketing at AFS. "I believe every |
| its fiber optic metro network expansion in | | | | business in the Salt Lake City/West Jordan |
| the Salt Lake City area. | | | | area that uses more than 10mb of bandwidth |
| | | | today will appreciate having a new, |
| Concentrated in West Jordan, one of the | | | | easy-to-do-business-with vendor to consider |
| fastest growing cities in Utah, the expansion | | | | for highly reliable data connections." |
| will connect the existing AFS fiber optical | | | | |
| network to a major wireless provider in the | | | | From its inception, AFS has focused on |
| area. This newly constructed ring offers over | | | | bringing connectivity to cities that were |
| 500 fiber miles of high-capacity, | | | | under-served by other network companies. This |
| high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber to | | | | new build is the only dark fiber network |
| enterprise and carrier customers | | | | available in the West Jordan/Salt Lake City |
| | | | area, giving businesses a strong, private |
| AFS designed these new routes to be | | | | alternative to the local exchange carrier. |
| completely diverse from all other telecom | | | | |
| providers in order to ensure that customers | | | | In addition to the Salt Lake City fiber |
| achieve true redundancy and the highest level | | | | optical network, AFS has dramatically |
| of reliability. Connected to area data | | | | increased the coverage and capacity of its |
| centers and rapidly growing commercial | | | | metro networks by strategically investing in |
| districts such as Jordan Landing, AFS is | | | | network expansion and improvements in Las |
| upgrading the network options currently | | | | Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Kansas City, |
| available in this location. | | | | Minneapolis, Nashville, Cleveland and Atlanta |
| | | | markets. |