New York, New York - August 4, 2009 -Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, and FiberMedia, provider of turn-key solutions for datacenter space, managed services and niche technology solutions with four major datacenter facilities in the Metro New York area, announce today the two companies have created a strategic partnership to offer industry-leading, network access space to one of New York City's top carrier hotels, 75 Broad Street. With this partnership, bandwidth-intensive customers such as financial, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications companies, educational institutions, and government agencies, can now build a state-of-the-art, custom built, dark fiber optic network with Lexent Metro Connect and then collocate their core network infrastructure equipment at 75 Broad Street with FiberMedia, benefiting from FiberMedia's network planning, technical support and managed services.

"As the only truly neutral, open access dark fiber provider in the New York Metro region, Lexent customers rely on us to provide 'freedom of choice' amongst the region's top tier data center facilities," states Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. "The addition of Fiber Media's 75 Broad Street location to the Lexent network helps meet our clients' rising demands for high quality, well connected data center space."

"Once customers' dark fiber networks enter our 75 Broad Street data center facility, FiberMedia works with clients to ensure flexible and affordable datacenter solutions, specifically designed to address critical data storage and other ongoing business concerns," continues Christopher Heim, COO of FiberMedia. "Additionally we offer short-term and long-term placement of fulltime technical staff to support infrastructure and application development and assignments, including HIPPA and SOX compliant solutions. Our solutions provide a true, turn-key network offering, so that our customers are building and interconnecting their networks within a cost-effective and solution-oriented environment."