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American Fiber Systems Wins "Best U.S. Metropolitan Provider" Award.


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 Selects American Fiber Systems Based on Strong Network Quality and Performance

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- American Fiber Systems Communications, Inc., today announced that it has won the Capacity Magazine Wholesale Telecommunications Award for Best U.S. Metropolitan Provider.

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, Managing Director, Telcap said, "Under the leadership of Dave Rusin, American Fiber Systems consistently scored well for network quality and performance, and has moved to consolidate its position as the provider in US second and third tier cities."

The judges based their selection on five key criteria - network quality and performance, network reach, speed to market, pricing strategies There are many ways in which the price of a product can be determined. The following are the foremost strategies that businesses are likely to use. Competition-based pricing
Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products.
 and infrastructure investments. The panel of judges contained industry thought-leaders, including: Camille Mendler, Vice President, International Telecommunications Strategies, Yankee Group, Stephen Young, Research Director, Ovum, 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. , Atlantic-ACM, Eira Hayward, Editor, Capacity magazine, Mark Kemp, CEO, TelCap & Editor-in-Chief, Capacity magazine.

The awards ceremony was held on November 13th, at Capacity Europe 2006 in Amsterdam. Accepting the award on behalf of the company was Gita Ramachandran, Chief Financial Officer for American Fiber Systems.

"This award is a reflection of an attitude that permeates the entire 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.

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 team," said Gita Ramachandran. From top to bottom, everyone is focused on delivering highly reliable and secure network services, on time--every time. This unifying spirit is instrumental in giving American Fiber Systems its competitive advantage. We are very pleased to be recognized by industry leaders and Capacity Magazine."

Capacity Magazine will publish an awards supplement to the magazine that features all the winners of the Capacity Magazine Wholesale Telecommunications Awards in their December 2006 issue.

About Capacity Magazine

The only monthly publication that focuses on the latest business techniques and strategies for bringing innovation and efficiency to the wholesale telecommunications industry. We bring together operators, carriers, service providers, metro-fiber providers, system integrators, equipment providers, OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware.  providers and end users. Capacity magazine is a must-read for all companies striving to maintain competitive advantage and achieve optimal business performance within the telecommunications community. Capacity offers a powerful, focused and unique marketing vehicle to reach the most senior level within the wholesale industry.

About American Fiber Systems

American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan fiber optic network infrastructure and wholesale transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence. 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 Atlanta, GA, 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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