FiberLight to acquire York County-based fiber provider

Georgia-based fiber optic networks provider FiberLight announced last week it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire York County-based Metro Fiber Networks.

The companies did not disclose financial terms. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of the year, once customary requirements have been met.

Metro Fiber is a fiber provider serving carriers and public institutions, with an underground network spanning over 200 miles from Henrico County, near Richmond, to the major subsea cable landing station in Virginia Beach. The Virginia Beach cable landing station supports transatlantic and United States-Latin American traffic.

FiberLight says the transaction will strengthen its existing network in Virginia.

“This transaction marks a significant milestone for FiberLight as we expand our network to reach Virginia Beach, which hosts the largest defense installation outside of the Pentagon and the largest [cable landing station] in the U.S.,” FiberLight CEO Bill Major said in a statement. “The MFN assets are a natural extension of our existing network and will allow us to provide customers with reliable, high-speed connectivity services to various organizations in Virginia.”

Virginia Beach is one of a few East Coast landing spots for subsea high-speed internet transmission cables, with a data center and cable landing station where subsea telecommunications cables MAREA, BRUSA and DUNANT connect Virginia to points in Europe and South America.

FiberLight was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. It has more than 19,000 route miles of fiber optic network throughout the United States, including locations in Washington, D.C., as well as in Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and Texas. It provides service at Mexican border crossings as well as the Latin America gateway.