AboveNet has announced a strategic sales campaign to expand its network reach to enterprises and carriers in the top U.S. metro markets. The campaign will initially focus on customers in the more than 400 data centers already connected to AboveNet's high performance, low latency network.

The new sales initiative specifically helps expand AboveNet's reach to private and carrier neutral data centers with a significant concentration of web-centric businesses, financial services organizations, law firms, health care providers, and enterprises with multinational points-of-contact.

"Today's market leaders recognize that the engine of a strong economy is business connectivity," said John "Joc" Jacquay, senior vice president of sales and marketing for AboveNet. "Through our continued investment in new network facilities and expanded reach to new data centers, AboveNet is committed to providing high bandwidth connectivity solutions that ensure on-demand access to the low latency, secure, diverse network paths our customers require for current and future growth."

As businesses continue to move mission-critical applications to the data center, there is an ever-increasing need for dedicated, secure fiber optic networks to handle data intensive applications such as multimedia transfers, cloud computing, and data replication and disaster recovery. AboveNet provides diverse, high bandwidth solutions to meet this demand in and between the metro markets where businesses need connections to their customers, clients and partners.

"Public and private cloud services are generating a very high amount of interest among enterprises and service providers that are interested in building end-to-end hosted and managed solutions," said Brian Washburn, research director, Business Network Services, Current Analysis. "AboveNet's connectivity campaign is an enabler that can bring a high density of enterprises and data centers together using secure, resilient, low-latency services."