A consortium led by funds managed by Morrison & Co. has agreed to acquire FiberLight, a pure-play, high-bandwidth fiber infrastructure provider headquartered in Atlanta, from Thermo Companies.
The FiberLight network comprises about 18,000 route miles of fiber infrastructure, servicing customers in more than 30 metropolitan areas, principally in the major markets of Texas and the northern Virginia.
The company builds, owns and operates state-of-the-art, high-capacity networks, and has a track record of execution for domestic and international wireless, wireline, cable, and hyperscale cloud providers as well as major enterprise, government and educational clients.
The investment will accelerate FiberLight’s network expansion, positioning it to take advantage of the rapidly growing fiber infrastructure market.
“With our existing backbone infrastructure and unmatched density across the markets we serve, FiberLight is well equipped to deploy a multitud