CLEVELAND – Everstream, the business-only fiber network, has entered Vertical Systems Group’s 2019 U.S. Fiber Lit Buildings Leaderboard Challenge Tier. This is the first time Everstream has made the Challenge Tier list, comprised of fiber providers with between 2,000 and 9,999 U.S. fiber lit commercial buildings.
“Everstream’s 2019 Midwest expansion efforts, including greenfield builds and acquisitions, have bolstered our total number of fiber lit commercial buildings. The Leaderboard is great recognition for those efforts as well as the company’s ongoing growth,” said Everstream President and CEO Brett Lindsey.
According to Vertical Systems Group, the number of on-net fiber lit commercial buildings exceeded one million in 2019 as network providers concentrated on U.S. footprint expansion. New fiber deployments have provided dedicated access to network services, connected 5G small cells and supported massive bandwidth surges.
In 2019, Everstream also:
- Grew its total route miles across all markets by 30%, to a total of more than 13,000.
- Entered three new metropolitan cities — Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio.
- Increased on-net locations — where fiber is run directly to a building/campus — by nearly 30% to bring high-speed fiber connectivity closer to its valued customers.
- Added fiber connectivity in seven state-of-the art data centers — for a total of 36 — to support growing demand by its customers.
The company is on track to grow to more than 15,000 miles of fiber with more than 3,000 on-net locations in 12 markets throughout the Midwest by the end of 2020.
For the rankings, a fiber lit building is defined as a commercial site or data center that has on-net optical fiber connectivity to a network provider’s infrastructure, plus active service termination equipment onsite. It does not include standalone cell towers, small cells not located in fiber lit buildings, near net buildings, buildings classified as coiled at curb or coiled in building, HFC-connected buildings, carrier central offices, residential buildings, and private or dark fiber installations.