Jan. 15, 2002 -- Hurricane Electric has purchased Long Island ISP Lightning Internet Services, allowing California-based Hurricane to expand into the greater New York market.
Hurricane Electric said it has acquired the rights to all of Lightning Internet Services facilities, customers and equipment and the option to assume specific contracts.
"By acquiring Lightning Internet Services, we can now broaden our colocation and web hosting services to New York and surrounding areas,'' said Mike Leber, president of Hurricane Electric. "This acquisition will allow us to better serve our customers on the East Coast and in Europe with the addition of offices and personnel in New York.''
Leber said existing Lightning customers should experience no interruption of services or problems associated with the acquisition. Rates will remain the same; however, Lightning Internet Services' customers will have newer higher bandwidth options available to them, some at a reduced rate.
The acquisition adds offices in Mineola and Farmingdale, NY to Hurricane Electric's existing facilities in San Jose and Fremont, Calif. along with equipment in New York, Washington DC, and Sunnyvale, Calif. and San Jose, Calif.
Hurricane Electric is a business TSP (Technical Service Provider) specializing in colocation, dedicated Servers, direct Internet connections, and web hosting. Hurricane Electric operates its own national network, running Gigabit Ethernet and multiple OC-3's.