American Fiber Systems Earns Best-in-Class Award in ATLANTIC-ACM 2006 Metro Report Card.AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System Wins Award for Best-in-Class Wholesale Metro Service Partner ATLANTA -- American Fiber Systems announced it received the 2006 Best-in-Class Wholesale Metro Service Partner among Metro-Specific Providers from ATLANTIC-ACM, a Boston-based telecommunications research consultancy. The award, announced at the Comptel Plus Fall 2006 Convention & Expo, is based on the results of ATLANTIC-ACM's 2006 Metro Report Card, which evaluated the performance in key delivery areas of communications service providers from ratings by both large and small spend business and wholesale customers. "We always appreciate being recognized by the industry for consistently delivering highly reliable bandwidth to our customers," said Darlene Abel, AFS Vice President, Lit Service Operations. "Our entire operations team works very hard every day to maintain our high standards. This award will only drive us to further improve our performance." "AFS performed very well in wholesale service categories including network quality, provisioning, customer service, sales representatives and billing," said Dr. Judy Reed Smith, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ATLANTIC-ACM. "This is evidence that AFS' commitment to service is recognized and valued by their customers. It is also important to note that Network Performance was the category determined to be 'most important driver of purchase' by our survey constituents. In this category, as rated by wholesale carriers among metro-specific providers, AFS was best in class, receiving the highest awards." "It is a great honor to be recognized as the highest caliber provider of broadband metropolitan transport IP connectivity in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ," said Dave Rusin, AFS CEO. "AFS was founded in 1999 without one inch of fiber cable installed, to be honored by our customers in such a manner today is a great tribute and defining moment, I am deeply humbled. All of the credit goes to the AFS team and our culture of network reliability, on-time delivery and superior customer service. To have been ranked well above telecom companies with over 100 years in the business and significant brand presence defines us in a class of our own." About ATLANTIC-ACM Boston-based ATLANTIC-ACM is a leading provider of strategic research and consulting services serving the telecommunications and information industries. The company has been providing benchmarked customer feedback for carriers in their "Report Card" Series since 1995, with the "Metro Report Card" the newest in the series. In addition, the company assists clients in evaluating telecommunications opportunities for successful investment, market entry and long-term planning. For more information, visit ATLANTIC-ACM's website at http://www.atlantic-acm.com. About American Fiber Systems American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan fiber optic network infrastructure and wholesale transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables it's customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence, including ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. central offices and wire centers; CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) PoPs; Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) and data center locations; Inter-exchange "carrier hotels;" wireless providers and cable company head ends; and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed over 90,000 miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power since 2000 in several cities, including Cleveland, OH; Kansas City KS/MO; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, Nashville, TN and Salt Lake City, UT. AFS has over 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be market teledensity of over $9 billion in annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. telecommunications services. American Fiber Systems is a privately held venture-backed company. |
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