FirstLight Partners with Megaport to Offer Seamless Cloud Connectivity

Combination of FirstLight's Low-Latency Fiber Connections Combined with Megaport's Software Defined Network (SDN) Creates a Compelling End-to-End Solution

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FirstLight

Oct 30, 2018, 10:00 ET

ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast, announced today that it is leveraging Megaport's global Software Defined Network (SDN) to access Megaport's ecosystem of over 300 service providers to seamlessly connect its clients to the public cloud and IT service providers.

Through this relationship, FirstLight's customers are able to source a complete solution enabling them to connect to the public cloud providers of their choice with greater flexibility, reduced costs and increased speed to market. Customers enjoy low latency, high quality FirstLight fiber-based solutions, while leveraging seamless cloud connectivity, all through a trusted partner who guarantees excellence in performance and provides scalable and reliable services.

"Enterprises need a quick and easy way to directly connect to cloud service providers. Megaport's Software Defined Network enables customers with fast, flexible and on-demand connectivity to any services in the Megaport Ecosystem," said Vincent English, CEO of Megaport. "Customers can provision capacity in near real time through our web-based portal. In this way, we have made the network buying experience similar to the cloud buying experience. We are very excited to work with FirstLight, helping them to provide their customers with the ability to seamlessly connect to the public cloud."

As a leading Network as a Service provider, Megaport enables dedicated connectivity on its SDN, which connects over 230 locations globally. Connections are provisioned in as little as 59 seconds, with secure access to hundreds of leading global providers such as AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Salesforce, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud, to name a few. The scalable, flexible Elastic Interconnection services offered by Megaport allow customers to adjust their capacity needs when and as necessary, while offering secure, reliable connections.

"At FirstLight, we pride ourselves on providing comprehensive business solutions delivered over our state-of-the-art fiber optic network," stated Kurt Van Wagenen, President and CEO of FirstLight. "Our relationship with Megaport means that we can connect our clients to the cloud provider of their choice, delivering a seamless collaboration experience."

About FirstLight

FirstLight, headquartered in Albany, New York, provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast connecting nearly 8,000 locations in service with more than 30,000 locations serviceable by our 14,000-route mile network. FirstLight offers a robust suite of advanced telecommunications products featuring a comprehensive portfolio of high bandwidth connectivity solutions including Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services as well as dedicated Internet access solutions, data center, cloud and voice services. FirstLight's clientele includes national cellular providers and wireline carriers and many leading enterprises, spanning high tech manufacturing and research, hospitals and healthcare, banking and financial, secondary education, colleges and universities, and local and state governments.

To learn more about FirstLight, visit www.firstlight.net, or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn.

FirstLight Media Contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA)
+1 866.695.3629 ext. 6
[email protected]

About Megaport
Megaport is the global leading provider of Elastic Interconnection services. Using Software Defined Networking (SDN), the Company's platform enables customers to rapidly connect their network to other services across the Megaport Network. Services can be directly controlled by customers via an intuitive web-based portal, or our open API. Megaport connects over 1100 customers in more than 230 data centers globally. Megaport is an Alibaba Cloud Technology Partner, Oracle Cloud Partner, AWS Technology Partner, AWS Networking Competency Partner, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Partner, Google Cloud Interconnect Partner, IBM Direct Link Cloud Exchange provider, and Salesforce Express Connect Partner.

Megaport Media Contact:

[email protected]

SOURCE FirstLight