Adelphia Tallies More Than 8,000 Miles of Dark Fiber

Williams Communicationsons service provider Adelphia Business Solutions Inc. (Coudersport, PA) has entered into agreements totaling about $100 million, giving the company indefeasible-rights- of-use (IRU) to more than 8,000 long haul route miles of fiber optic network and access to new U.S. The IRU agreements are with several providers, including Level 3 Williams Communicationsons, <%=company%>, Metromedia Fiber Network, and Allegheny Williams Communicationsons Connect Inc.

The series of agreements include long haul dark fiber, metro duct, and metro dark fiber throughout the country, which the company will interconnect with its existing fiber optic network. The network will allow Adelphia Business Solutions to transport and terminate the vast majority of its customers' long distance and internet traffic on its owned facilities. Furthermore, the network provides the company with the enabling architecture to extend service offerings to include enhanced data applications such as frame relay, ATM, and VPNs. Several company markets will able to be served from one switching/central office location, resulting in better capital use.

Edited by Kristin Keiser