American Fiber Systems Further Expands Metropolitan Fiber Optic Network in Salt Lake City Area

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