NEW YORK, USA: As bandwidth consumption continues to grow, TelecomSupportDesk.com, a telecom master agent specializing in high bandwidth circuits and customized network designs, sees an increased demand for bigger bandwidth pipes.

2010 will be the year of a huge explosion in the demand for bigger bandwidth pipes. Growing trends in shared cloud computing and centralized private clouds as well as the increase in the consumer demand for bandwidth seem major driving factors.

As an authorized AboveNet agent, TelecomSupportDesk often relies on their fiber optic network.

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Wind, VP, sales, TelecomSupportdesk.com, said: “When a business comes to us looking for high bandwidth from 100Mbps, 1Gpbs even to 10Gbps metro Ethernet solutions, chances are high that AboveNet is the right solution for them."

"Especially the extreme low latency fiber optics (as low as 1 ms both ways) between two locations is why AboveNet often wins the deal. A low latency route can be extremely crucial for financial institutions as a change in milliseconds can often mean losses of millions in financial trades or transactions,” Wind added.

In a recent interview with TelecomSupportDesk.com Michael Brown, AboveNet’s VP of Indirect and Carrier Sales, explains how AboveNet has been able to build such an extensive, national fiber network and what differentiates them from other fiber connectivity providers.

He also discusses the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as the importance that low latency can play in a network.

“AboveNet was founded over 15 years ago and started out by an electrical contractor. They had to fight the City of New York to get a franchise agreement to put fiber optic cabling in the ground in order to compete with the ILECs. This is a very capital intensive business and required additional funding. The Metromedia Group decided to invest in the company and changed the name to Metromedia Fiber Network.”

Metromedia Fiber Network had quite an explosive growth in the late ‘90s which occurred as a lot of the telecom companies of the ‘90s were restructuring. They reorganized as AboveNet, Inc. in 2003 and today they are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ABVT).

“By having gone through this reorganization we have developed a financial discipline and a success-based model,” Michael Brown continues. “We were one of the early companies that got into building metro fiber networks. We used to own datacenters, managed service providers within datacenters and carrier neutral peering which we sold years ago. And with that we went back to our roots, which is being a metro access connectivity provider enabled by dark fiber.”