CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- By combining the more than 6,300 miles of fiber infrastructure of the former Frontier and newly purchased Verizon telecommunications properties, Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) has created a robust fiber optic middle-mile infrastructure to bring high bandwidth or high speed/broadband services to the state of West Virginia. In addition, Frontier has more than 100 major fiber network upgrades planned over the next 12 months, which will significantly expand Frontier’s capability in West Virginia.

Frontier will leverage this fiber network by building a new Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) network in southern West Virginia to provide increased bandwidth up to 10 gigabits and redundancy in 12 markets throughout the state. ROADM technology offers a more flexible infrastructure, enables service to be deployed more rapidly, eliminates overlay technologies and provides a single platform to deliver multiple services and further reliability.

It utilizes a state-of-the-art optical multiplexer to remotely switch telecommunications traffic and provides much greater flexibility to make changes without affecting customer high speed broadband traffic already on the network. This network will be the foundation for a new Switched Ethernet network that will provide 10 Gigabit capacity for business customers and cell sites, and greatly enhance service reliability for all customers.

Frontier Communications Corp. (NYSE: FTR)