Why Should You Do Business With AboveNet?

We Deliver Networks for the World’s Most Demanding Customers
Metro and Wide Area High Bandwidth Networks: Securely and Reliably Connected Over Our World Class, High Speed Fiber Optic Network

We Have A Simple Formula…One size does not fit all:

• We offer extensive, US metropolitan fiber optic connectivity solutions designed to provide the most direct path and offering the lowest latency
• Leverage our owned and operated high-performance, high bandwidth Tier 1 network.
• Superbly support your solution(s) with our top quality professionals providing deployment, monitoring and maintenance of Metro Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions.
• We’re not all things to all customers; we don’t provide sub-100Mb services. We are laser-focused on expertly enabling the high bandwidth information exchange that businesses and carriers require.

Whether you do business in the local MAN or national WAN, AboveNet has the expertise and connectivity choices to provide the high bandwidth solutions to meet your specific business needs.

MAN Services
Metro Area Network Solutions

• Ethernet Services
• Wave (WDM) Services
• Fiber Services

WAN Services
Wide Area Network Solutions

• IP Services
• VPN Services
• eXpressWave™ Long Haul services

More Network Applications Power, More Value For Your Business:

• Solutions that effectively handle your most critical traffic. We custom-build customer networks that can grow with your business needs, ready to scale monthly or on demand.
• Proven flexibility and responsiveness that has allowed AboveNet to be trusted with the mission-critical needs of financial services, media, health care, retail, government and carrier customers.
• Private networking solutions without sharing or the uncertainties as to who is responsible for the reliability, security and performance of your networks—eliminates finger pointing.
• Carrier class electronics light our vast fiber optic network, providing the fastest, lowest latency network available to support your demanding applications.
• Metro MAN markets served by high bandwidth, fiber optic connectivity solutions that are diverse, dedicated and secure.

AboveNet Is Different From The CLECs / ILECs

• Our integrated solutions, singularly focused on high-bandwith use, provide you the preferred choice to legacy network limitations. You can have truly diverse, customized MANs or WANs that enable real-time, connectivity when and how it is needed.
• Our owned and operated metro fiber optic network provides solutions that are diverse from and bypass ILEC/CLEC networks. Our solutions do not navigate the multiple connection points of Central Offices and Tandem Switches as do large telephone companies This enables customers to create highly-reliable,,cost-effective network solutions that can exceed the performance of the last mile of complex and vulnerable legacy telecom infrastructures.
• At the speed of light, you can go from and to our major metro-markets with flexible, fiber optic solutions riding on our eXpressWave™ network from our POP to your premises.
• We offer private network solutions designed for your specific needs, solutions more customized than those of the CLECs/ILECs.

Not All Fiber Is Equal

• We deliver services over our metro fiber rings, providing customers a dedicated pair of fibers that offers physically secure, low latency, flexible and scalable communications solutions.
• These dedicated and diverse solutions are difficult for many of our competitors to duplicate because most of their networks do not have comparable fiber density.
• Our networks typically have up to 864 fiber strands in each cable, offering significantly greater fiber density than most of our competitors. This high fiber count provides us with spare network capacity to provide custom solutions and to add new customers quickly and cost effectively.

High Performance Network Architecture

• Dedicated fiber delivers services without transition over potential fail-points such as central offices or tandem switches connecting shared or legacy networks
• Geographically dispersed connectivity for the most demanding network requirements
• Direct, high-performance routing between major metro markets
• Long Haul, Low Latency: Networks designed for the shortest path, with minimal cross-connect patch panels and fewer POPs, regeneration sites and equipment interfaces - offering customers improved speed, lower latency and more reliable service

Have It Your Way: Customized Network Solutions

• Private network optimized for your specific applications
• Future-proofed: solutions ready for future technology changes on a customer specific basis

Experience is the Difference

• Your mission-critical services are supported by the decades of customer-tested, field-proven expert knowledge of our personnel.  Our teams effectively deploy and support our owned and operated 1.8 million fiber-mile network, providing fiber optic connectivity solutions for the world’s most demanding business and carrier networks.