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FiberLocator is leaping tall buildings with a single bound! Or, at least we’re making significant additions to our rapidly growing list of on-net buildings. FiberLocator now catalogs over 215,000 on-net or “lit” buildings as reported by the carriers in FiberLocator. Carriers routinely update information in FiberLocator to help us deliver the best possible data to […]

New data is now available in FiberLocator! For a limited time, FiberLocator Online users can choose to view submarine cable operators and landing stations along with all the other great telecom data in the system.  If you have any questions about the data or how to use it, don’t hesitate to contact us. Take the […]

Robust Network Spanning Mid-Atlantic Region Available to FiberLocator Community NEWTON, Mass. (Oct 4, 2012) – FiberLocator, the leading online fiber infrastructure and colocation database, announced today that Lumos Networks (www.lumosnetworks.com) added its fiber network routes and lit buildings to the extensive FiberLocator research database. The addition of the Lumos Networks footprint to FiberLocator bolsters the […]

Make sure to log into FiberLocator to check out the latest updates! This week’s platform update brings back an old favorite feature, and introduces what will hopefully become a new favorite as well. First, back in with the old: we have reintroduced the ability to store your password in the login screen of FiberLocator. The […]

First there was the telephone… Then came email… Finally, the smartest, easiest and most complete way to do telecom network research was born — FiberLocator! FiberLocator is growing by leaps and bounds, and many are curious to know more about the unique, searchable online telecom research database. FiberLocator maps thousands of “lit” buildings, data centers […]

Like many sites on the web, we use GoDaddy’s DNS services for FiberLocator.com domains. Because our DNS is hosted at GoDaddy, some of our users have been experiencing issues with accessing FiberLocator because of an alleged cyber attack on GoDaddy. We are aware of the problem and monitoring GoDaddy communication channels in order to keep […]

Verizon recently encountered service outages across the Baltimore area due to a train derailment. This affected government data services, as well as long-distance voice services. As with many emenrgencies and disasters, there was no warning of the disaster. Verizon responded to the event rerouting traffic to other existing network facilities. However, it took 24 hours […]