Lumos signs Ethernet network deal with HCA Virginia

Waynesboro-based Lumos Networks Corp. has signed a multi-year Ethernet network contract with HCA Virginia in Richmond.

The network will connect 10 HCA Virginia facilities, satellite offices and critical-care locations to its Richmond Data Center.

The project is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2013 and will bring to 17 the number of HCA Virginia facilities connected on Lumos’ fiber network through advanced Ethernet services.

The cost of the deal was not disclosed.

HCA Virginia operates 13 hospitals and more than a dozen outpatient centers and is affiliated with 3,000 physicians in Central, Southwest and Northern Virginia.

In Central Virginia, HCA Virginia includes four imaging centers, six outpatient surgery centers, more than 50 physician practice locations and seven hospitals — Henrico Doctors’, Parham Doctors’, Retreat Doctors’, West Creek Emergency Center, Chippenham, Johnston-Willis, John Randolph and Spotsylvania Regional.

Lumos Networks is a fiber-based service provider in the mid-Atlantic offering data, voice and IP services. Lumos serves Virginia, West Virginia and portions of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, and Maryland over a 5,800 route-mile fiber network.