Looking Glass Networks Inc., a facilities-based provider of metro data transport services, said it has already signed more than $15 million in initial customer contracts for lit bandwidth, dark fiber and collocation services in nine new metropolitan markets.
Oak Brook, Ill.-based Looking Glass said it recently turned up networks in locations where metro bandwidth demands are greatest: at key carrier hotels, data centers and ILEC central offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Northern New Jersey, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C./Northern Virginia.
Lynn Refer, chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Looking Glass, called the lighting of its new networks a "significant milestone" for the company. "We have completed our optical networks on schedule and now we are bringing the benefits of focused local network connectivity, flexible service options and fast delivery times to metro customers with large bandwidth needs."
The $15 million in new contracts came from more than 20 key carrier and enterprise customers, Refer also said.
To meet metro customers' critical requirements for network diversity and service availability, Looking Glass built its own networks that are physically diverse from other carriers in the capacity-constrained metro area. Looking Glass has deployed an application agnostic platform, meaning it offers the full range of carrier class SONET, Ethernet and Wavelength lit services from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, along with dark fiber and carrier-neutral collocation services.
Looking Glass also has developed and deployed a flexible operational support system (OSS) suite that facilitates rapid customer provisioning, capable of turning-up service in less than 10 days, and offers point-and-click convenience through a Web-based customer service portal.
In a separate release, Looking Glass said it has implemented the Cisco ONS 15454 Metro Optical Transport Platform and Cisco Transport Manager as key components of its optical networking platform.
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