Broadwing Announces Lightwave Agreement with Allegiance Telecom
📅 - Broadwing Communications (broadwing.com -> lumen.com), has announced amulti-year agreement with Allegiance Telecom, Inc. (allegiancetele.com), toprovide 2.5 gigabit lightwave services, connecting eight of the carrier'smajor metropolitan markets.
Broadwing's lightwave services, available on the all-optical switchednetwork provide capacity, speed, and performance that are superior totraditional legacy networks. "It was important for us to find a company with both financial stability andthe ability to deliver an immense amount of bandwidth capacity," said DanYost, president and COO of Allegiance Telecom, a facilities-based integratedcommunications provider. "After looking at other providers, Broadwing wasthe best answer. Broadwing's all- optical switched network has the power,bandwidth capacity and speed to enable us to continue growing our businessby expanding our products and services." Broadwing's all-optical switched network enables lit capacity that can bedelivered on short frames, giving customers bandwidth when and where theyneed it. The Broadwing Communications network also received theInfrastructure of the Year Award at the recent Networld+Interop show.
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