Strategic Partnership Will Greatly Enhance Companies’ Wireless Broadband Network Offerings to Enterprise and Government Customers in NYC and Chicago Markets

High value wireless services and expanded coverage now available in New York metro and Chicago markets via a new partnership between Rainbow Broadband and Business Only Broadband. Combined footprint represents the largest wireless broadband coverage in these metro areas. For more information please read below:

New York, NY – June 3, 2010 – Rainbow Broadband Inc. (Rainbow), a leading technology solutions and wireless broadband services provider for mid-town and downtown Manhattan, and Business Only Broadband (BOB), the largest wireless broadband provider in the Chicago area with a strong presence in the surrounding New York and North New Jersey suburbs, today announce the formation of a new partnership, designed to significantly enhance the value and reach of their combined wireless broadband network offerings to enterprise and government customers in both the New York metro and Chicago markets.

“We could not be more pleased,” states Russ Hamm, CEO of Rainbow Broadband, of the partnership. “By combining the marketing efforts and network infrastructure of our two organizations, we’ve jointly created the largest broadband wireless footprint in two major markets in the U.S.”

Alan Rosenberg, CEO of Business Only Broadband, adds, “Combined, our companies can now offer our enterprise and government customers a true choice for diverse access throughout the New York Metro area including Northern New Jersey, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Queens as well as connectivity to and between key carrier hotels and data centers in the area.”

The New York and Chicago markets are also interconnected via diverse fiber and presently serve customers that span both locations. BOB boasts a fully resilient, self-healing Ethernet gigabit wireless backbone that is 100% diverse from terrestrial based Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) networks, as well as a fully enabled Layer 2 and Layer 3 network that supports access speeds from T1 up to 1 Gbps.

For more information on Rainbow Broadband, call 1 800 747 1830, or visit www.rainbowbroadband.com.

For more information on Business Only Broadband, call 1 877 627-5262, email sales@BusinessOnlyBroadband.com, or visit www.BusinessOnlyBroadband.com.

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About Rainbow Broadband Inc.:

Rainbow Broadband provides innovative technology and solutions to New York City businesses that require competitively-priced high-speed broadband, without having to rely on the incumbent carriers’ infrastructure. Using HFM (Hybrid Fiber Microwave) technology, the company has developed a fast and reliable carrier class broadband network that can deliver symmetrical bandwidth at speeds up to 100Mbs, via Ethernet, to businesses which previously were limited in access due to location or cost. Rainbow Broadband is a full service organization offering a suite of products and solutions to broadband needs of New York City metropolitan area businesses.

About Business Only Broadband:

Chicago area-based Business Only Broadband provides carrier class, 100 percent diverse wireless Metro Ethernet data network solutions to the financial, healthcare, education, government and large enterprise sectors. Business Only Broadband owns and operates the largest fixed wireless broadband network in Chicago and New York City. Led by a veteran industry management team, the company offers 100 percent diverse service with no common point of failure with the LEC or CLEC networks in addition to QOS, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Private Networks and City to City connections. Visit www.BusinessOnlyBroadband.com for more information.

Allied Fiber is Constructing a Nationwide, Network-Neutral, Dark Fiber Cable System Linking U.S. Subsea Landing Points, Major Data Centers, Colocation Interconnection Facilities, Rural Networks and Wireless Towers to Meet Increasing Market Demand

Construction Underway to Complete the 1300 Route-Mile Phase 1 Component of the 11,548 Route-Mile, Six-Phase Plan Ringing the United States

NEW YORK, New York (May 24th, 2010) – Allied Fiber announces today that the Company has executed definitive agreements with financial partners and several major railroads and right-of-way owners, including Norfolk Southern Railway, to build a new, network-neutral, high-count dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower integrated system. Construction of the first phase linking New York, NY, Chicago, IL and Ashburn, VA is already underway and will cost approximately US$140 million.

Allied Fiber is addressing the need for increasing national broadband demand by providing much needed access to new dark fiber, colocation facilities and fiber-fed wireless towers on a network-neutral, open-access basis throughout the United States. The user community for these physical-layer services ranges from and includes submarine cable systems, large international and domestic wireline and wireless carriers and network operators to small rural carriers, cooperatives and cable television companies.

According to TeleGeography, trans-Atlantic bandwidth demand has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 47 percent between 2004 and 2009.  It is expected to continue growing strongly from 2010 to 2015, with total demand for capacity nearly doubling every two years.  Furthermore, In-Stat research indicates that 90,000 Gbps of capacity in the last mile of the backhaul network will be needed by the end of 2013 to support the world’s cellular and WiMAX networks.

“We created this system to address the numerous backhaul and capacity issues that exist in the marketplace today,” states Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. “We appreciate all of the insight and support we have received from the industry and look forward to delivering our network-neutral, dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower access services to all that need it.”

Allied Fiber has implemented a new, multi-duct design for intermediate access to the long-haul fiber duct through a parallel short-haul fiber duct all along the route. This enables all points between the major cities, including wireless towers and rural networks, to gain access to the dark fiber. In addition, the Allied Fiber neutral colocation facilities, located approximately every 60 miles along the route, accommodate and encourage a multi-tenant interconnection environment integrated with fiber that does not yet exist in the United States on this scale.

“The name Allied Fiber was chosen to signify a new type of all-access, physical layer network,” continues Rory J. Cutaia, Executive Chairman of Allied Fiber. “This network specifically manages competing systems in a common, carrier-neutral infrastructure offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs.”

The first phase of the system will provide a combined 648 dark fibers, nineteen 700+ sq ft colocation facilities and 300 tower sites all integrated into one system from one provider, creating a new standard for interconnection. With planned, direct connections to the submarine cable systems linking the Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin American and Pacific cables, Allied Fiber will also provide express routing of traffic through the United States on the latest and most advanced fiber types available. Building new, shortest path, physical duct and fiber routes combined with modern fiber will result in lower latencies as well as higher capacities to be achieved between these points.

Allied Fiber has selected Michels Communications, a division of Michels Corporation, Henkels & McCoy, Inc. and Adesta, LLC to construct and install various portions of the system. The entire Phase One deployment is scheduled to be completed by fourth quarter of 2010.

“All our fiber and colocation construction projects are rapidly progressing, thanks to the teamwork we have with our outstanding contractors and strategic partners who are committed to building a world-class network,” continues Jason Cohen, Allied Fiber President & COO.

The new 432-count, long haul cable coupled with the 216-count, short-haul cable will be a composite of Single-Mode (SMF) and Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted (NZDSF) fibers. By having a high-fiber count and being network-neutral, Allied Fiber is able to offer dark fiber and at lower unit costs.

The Company is currently accepting customer agreements for fiber and colocation in the system, evidencing the strong demand for Allied Fiber’s all-access integrated interconnection facility network.

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Conference Call

Allied Fiber will host a live video conference call for recipients to answer questions on this announcement at 8:00AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 26^th. 

To participate in the video-conference, please email Ilissa Miller at ilissa@jaymiescotto.com.  Directions for the conference call, either by video or just audio, will be sent to you directly.

About Allied Fiber
Allied Fiber was created to address America’s need to eliminate obstacles for broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through new, next generation long haul dark fiber and an open access philosophy. The Allied Fiber team is comprised of experts in the fields of communications, network construction and finance.  They are dedicated to building and providing access to an abundant supply of dark fiber in areas where it is most needed. The first phase of new duct and fiber construction will be between New York, NY, Ashburn, VA and Chicago, IL. For more information, please visit www.alliedfiber.com.

Global Telecoms Business (GTB) recently released its 2010 top Forty Under Forty List. This list consists of the top forty leaders in the telecom industry under forty years old.   Submissions came in from across the globe and the list was complied of those young industry thought leaders leading the way for telecommunication innovation today and into tomorrow.   A follow up to this initial list will be a special feature on each of these 40 individuals which will showcase their views on the main issues concerning the telecom industry throughout the course of the year.

Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber was one of the individuals selected for this prestigious list. Mr.Newby is a true telecom visionary with over 12 years of industry experience and is currently building a next generation dark fiber network throughout the United States.  The first phase of this network connects New York to Chicago, New York to Ashburn, VA and Chicago to Ashburn, VA.  As part of Mr. Newby’s vision, Allied Fiber is designed to address the need for broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through new, long haul dark fiber construction with an open access philosophy.

The list highlights the men and women from around the world who have made strides in the telecommunications industry today and embrace the technology of tomorrow. To view the complete list of winners on GTB’s website, please click here.

For more information on Allied Fiber, please click here.

Allied Fiber is a unique company.  It is building a dark fiber network that will provide connectivity, ample bandwidth and offer a unique backhaul solution to solve carriers’ critical transport issues.  The company has just published a paper titled ‘Allied Fiber Helps Bring Fiber to the Tower – Your Tower’ illustrating how its network  design allows for intermediate access points along its fiber route to offer wireless towers easy ‘on and off ramps’ to the wireline infrastructure.

Below are highlights of the key benefits Allied Fiber offers Tower Operators:

 Allied Fiber will work with the tower operator and/or the mobile wireless service providers to identify the towers that require fiber for Ethernet transport services along the Allied Fiber route

 With this information, Allied Fiber will identify optimal locations for handholes to be placed on the short-haul duct where lateral ducts can be built to reach the towers

 This information can be provided to the Ethernet transport provider vendors that supply services to the mobile operators so that they can determine which towers they would like to build as extensions off of the Allied Fiber route

Tower Operator Benefits

 Solve the Ethernet backhaul issue

 Keep mobile operator tenants on the tower

 Attract new tenants

 Support justification for increased lease rates

For the complete Tower Operator Benefits – please email info@alliedfiber.com

CoreSite, a Carlyle Company that offers wholesale data centers, colocation and peering solutions to the global marketplace, has recently published its first quarter of 2010 customer and prospect newsletter.   The newsletter featured some interesting industry perspectives from such notable industry folks as Rich Miller, the Editor of Data Center Knowledge, Barry X Lynn, the Chairman and CEO of 3Tera who wrote about the differences between virtualization and cloud computing, Mark Fishburn of CENX and Hunter Newby, the CEO of Allied Fiber.

Hunter Newby, whose team ‘invented’ the carrier interconnection model in the late ’90s and early 2000, shared his insite on the Broadband Stimulus asking ‘Can It Really Be Done for $7.2 Billion?’  Since the first round of funding was awarded around February 16^th, the majority of the 1,400 applicants were not awarded grants or loans totaling $4.2 billion.  With the first round of funding completed, Mr. Newby observed that there is no clear plan as to how the Nation will address the issue of high-speed broadband access for all.  

Newby goes on to explain the major issues associated with the Broadband Stimulus package and how the federal government is attacking the problem.  It’s an interesting read – with more to come from Newby on the topic for sure. 

As the CEO of Allied Fiber, he has set out to build the nation’s first and only carrier neutral dark fiber network to provide interconnectivity solutions between wireline and wireless providers.  It is with the careful planning of Allied Fiber’s network and business that provides Newby with his keen observations of the nation’s broadband stimulus initiatives. 

Time will certainly tell how the Government awards its funds as we all watch on – trying to solve the enigmatic  approach to the process.