USA Fiber adds dark fiber to Northern Virginia

Oct. 5, 2015
USA Fiber has entered the busy Ashburn/Northern Virginia market with a new dark fiber network. The network is the first of what the company promises will be several dark fiber deployments.

USA Fiber has entered the busy Ashburn/Northern Virginia market with a new dark fiber network. The network is the first of what the company promises will be several dark fiber deployments.

The company was founded by Judd Carothers, who serves as president, and Ken Goff, who is CEO. Carothers has senior management experience at KCI Inc., an engineering, consulting, and construction firm, and at FiberLight LLC, where he served 17 years (see, for example, "FiberLight secures funds to continue its network expansion"). Goff was president of Goff Communications Inc. from 1995 through 2004, founder and CEO of iT2Me until it was acquired in 2006, and founder and president of Goff Wireless, which was sold this year.

"USA FIBER is building new dark fiber networks with massive scale. Our focus is on building key routes that enable our customers to connect simply, and reach their clients, infrastructure or application with improved speed, latency and uptime," according to Carothers.

The northern Virginia fiber-optic network ring will include a 7-mile core data center ring that will access "up to" 35 data centers in the immediate area. The underground network will feature multiple 864-count fiber rings.

"Ashburn, VA, has long been the leading market for where the world connects, and USA Fiber is proud to deploy an asset that helps accelerate the migration of compute to cloud enabling better performance," Goff said.

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