London, United Kingdom, 24 September 2007

FibreSpan, the premier provider of private dark fibre networks, has signed a contract with a leading futures and hedge fund management firm to provide a dark fibre LAN extension linking two sites in the West End of London.

Through the agreement, FibreSpan’s dark fibre will be used to deliver high speed network services for the customer’s distributed real-time business applications. The solution fits perfectly with FibreSpan’s core competencies and further compliments its growing corporate and financial services portfolio.

“This was the ideal solution for this customer, and is equally competitive and effective for any company operating from multiple locations,” comments Robert Bicket, Chief Executive of FibreSpan. “In particular we are doing more business with the financial services industry, where our high speed networks are enabling firms to execute financial transactions with the minimum of latency”.

FibreSpan’s dark fibre solution is an ideal solution for banks, investment firms and trading firms where high-performance, resilience and control is absolutely critical. It provides dedicated point-to-point connectivity and a fixed price unlimited bandwidth model – a future proof solution fit for a rapidly changing environment.