Fiber Mountain Named a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner

  CHESHIRE, CT - 05/12/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

Fiber Mountain, Inc., the Glass Core Company and provider of transformative software defined networking (SDN) solutions for enterprise and colocation data centers, today announced it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2016[i] report by Gartner, Inc.

 “We are honored to be considered a Cool Vendor in this category by Gartner and see it as recognition of our mission to simplify network infrastructure through Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core.” said M. H. Raza, CEO of Fiber Mountain. “Our Glass Core technology is a virtual connectivity fabric that enables a dynamic layer 1 network which when used in conjunction with switch and router networks provide the highest level of network control.”

“Cool Vendors are those that have caught Gartner's interest during the past year because they offer innovative and/or high-potential technologies or solutions. In this report, we highlight five vendors whose products have the potential to impact CSP infrastructure — such as cloud-based offerings — with newer SD-WAN control for elastic network services, vCPE service orchestration and emerging MEC solutions, as well as innovative MVNO offerings.”ⁱ

About Fiber Mountain

Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core transforms network infrastructure of today’s increasingly complex and bandwidth-hungry data centers through its AllPath Director orchestration system, Optical Path Exchange and AllPath Connect family of intelligent layer 1 products. These software-defined solutions create a virtual connectivity fabric which brings new levels of intelligence to the network through direct packet delivery and software controlled configuration and seamless, high-speed connectivity management between switches, routers, servers and storage devices. Fiber Mountain dramatically increases network speed and efficiency and significantly reduces traditional data center expansion and operation costs. For more information, please visit www.fibermountain.com.

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Fiber Mountain, Inc. Contact

Bill Miller

VP Marketing

(203) 806-4040

BillMiller@fibermountain.com

[i] Gartner “Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2016” by Akshay K. Sharma, Sylvain Fabre, Mentor Cana, Peter Liu, Kosei Takiishi, Takeshi Ikeda, April 26, 2016.