Atos Origin Selects FiberLight As New Diverse Optical Transport Provider

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FiberLight, LLC®, a leading provider of optical transport services, announced Atos Origin has selected FiberLight for a new core data center optical ring. The 10 Gig network offers scalable and complete diversity to ensure maximum uptime between multiple locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

“We were impressed with the scalable network solution FiberLight offered as well as its ability to perform beyond standard SLAs, while offering us the stability and dependability of our own private network at a reasonable price”

FiberLight was selected as the logical network design solution as the company offers 3,900 route miles of interconnected metro networks throughout Texas. The city of Dallas is part of FiberLight’s growing Texas network encompassing Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christie, Waco, McAllen, and Laredo.

“Atos Origin needed ultra reliable bandwidth to ensure customer data and mission critical applications could be transported seamlessly between the company’s key sites,” said Ron Kormos, FiberLight’s EVP of Operations and Engineering. “With FiberLight’s LightSource network platform, we were able to guarantee the reliability Atos requires in support of their clients.”

Atos Origin chose to partner with FiberLight because of the Atlanta-based company’s reputation for delivering customized, protected network solutions utilizing 24/7 monitoring capability and redundant NOCs. FiberLight’s extensive metro footprint in Texas provides Atos Origin with access to additional fiber assets in its target metro markets while offering security and continuity to its diverse customer base.

“We were impressed with the scalable network solution FiberLight offered as well as its ability to perform beyond standard SLAs, while offering us the stability and dependability of our own private network at a reasonable price,” said Mark Cyran, Vice President of Managed Operations Atos Origin North America. “Using FiberLight, we are able to provide a best-in-class high bandwidth solution to our customers while leveraging FiberLight’s extensive metro assets.”

About FiberLight

FiberLight provides Ethernet, Wavelengths, IP, SONET, and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions to telecom carriers, government, enterprise, content providers and web centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000 mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in 22 metros within Georgia, Florida, Washington, D.C., Texas, Virginia and Maryland, as well as Wide Area Networking options at layer 1, 2 and 3 to major commercial hubs throughout the country. FiberLight fully supports applications requiring maximum availability, low latency and ultimate security. Visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com.

About Atos Origin

Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of Consulting, Systems Integration and Managed Operations. The Company’s annual revenue is $6.8 billion and it employs 50,000 professionals in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.