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Happy Father’s Day to All Our Dads!

We’ve received an unbelievable number of call this year from families wanting to give a FiberLocator subscription to their dads this Father’s Day! Okay, so that’s not “technically” true, but we DO want to wish all the hard-working, BBQ grilling, front yard ball tossing, car washing, oil changing, sink unclogging, (and toilet unclogging) dads out […]

August 2013 Updates in FiberLocator

We made a few key August updates to the carrier data in FiberLocator, the most comprehensive online telecom infrastructure and colocation database available.  Each month we make additions and updates to network maps, data centers locations, and lit buildings.  Interested in your own FiberLocator account or enterprise license? Get started here or watch the new demo […]

Need for Speed

We all remember the famous line from Top Gun: “I feel the need… the need for speed.” Speed is a key element of application performance in a system like FiberLocator. Users not only want to get the rich and voluminous data FiberLocator provides, but they also want the maps to render quickly and seamlessly on […]

Scheduled Maintenance Friday – 12/21 at 9PM EDT

Please note that FiberLocator Online will be undergoing scheduled maintenance this Friday, December 21 at 9pm Eastern which will last approximately one hour. Exciting infrastructure upgrades are in the works! Oh, and if the Mayan calendar really does mark the end of the world, spend your last day doing something other than searching FiberLocator for […]

Carrier Zoom View- New Feature!

You already know that FiberLocator Online can show you details on a fiber network down to street level, and you know you can “zoom to max extent” which shows you the entire United States. With the new Carrier Zoom View feature, now you also get the benefit of using FiberLocator Online to visualize and better […]

Now More Numeric Pushpins

You’ve been able to add multiple locations for some time now — but tracking only nine locations just wasn’t enough! Now you can track up to 20 distinct locations with numeric pushpins in FiberLocator Online. To use this feature, you can simply input up to 20 locations in the address search bar across the top […]

Lit Building List Gets a Big Boost

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 […]