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Gaithersburg, MD (July 11, 2017) — CCMI, a business unit of Simplify Compliance, announces the acquisition of NEF’s FiberLocator, an online fiber mapping database. This is the second acquisition by Simplify Compliance since Leeds Equity Partners, LLC invested to form the company in December 2016. “We’re excited to welcome FiberLocator to the CCMI portfolio. This […]

Last week, FierceTelecom published their list of the Top 25 Business Fiber Providers in the U.S.  Many of the names are familiar, big name providers, but there are also some that are regional or smaller sized carriers that you may not yet be familiar with. Of the 25 that FierceTelecom included, we’re excited to announce […]

FiberLocator is spending the next few days at the International Telecoms Week conference in Chicago, and we are very excited to get to know some new international carriers. Hundreds of companies are attending this 3 day conference, which is sponsored by big names in telecom both here and abroad. We are also excited to introduce international […]

Back in February, FiberLocator unveiled some new features that our users had been looking forward to. One of them was an expansion to the proprietary data feature, which now allows users to upload their own line or point data to store as an additional layer in their map view. We are very excited about this […]

Proprietary Layers An exciting and anticipated addition to FiberLocator is a section of the “My Workspace” panel called Proprietary Layers. Customers will be able to upload their own files into FiberLocator, so they can view personal map data alongside FiberLocator’s existing data. Getting Started To upload proprietary data, just look for the button at the top right on […]

Last month, we debuted the Internet Exchange layer in the FiberLocator tool. Because this is a new feature, we decided to look a little closer at why adding internet exchanges as a layer is important to our customers, and relevant to locating fiber connectivity in the first place. At the most basic, an internet exchange […]

This past July marked the 150th anniversary of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. To think it used to take weeks for a message to get from Europe to North America shows the great strides telecom has made over the course of 150 years. FiberLocator isn’t quite as old as that first trans-Atlantic cable, but we’re proud […]