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Optimum Lightpath Helps Family Service League Connect Critical Social Services to More Than 48,000 People in Long Island, NY - Faster, Better and Smarter

Posted on: Thursday, 26 March 2009, 07:30 CDT

83-year old non-profit organization leverages smart fiber-to-the-business, significantly increasing bandwidth capacity to provide training and care services to an additional 6,000 people.

JERICHO, N.Y., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum Lightpath(SM), a market leader in Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area businesses, today announced that Family Service League, a dynamic social service organization servicing Long Island, has selected Optimum Lightpath to help improve the lifeblood of its business: delivering community-based services and care to individuals, children and families in need. By deploying Optimum Lightpath's all-fiber optic network between its Huntington, NY, headquarters and its four regional family centers across Long Island, Family Service League increased its network capacity by 700 percent and simplified its bottom line with Optimum Lightpath's predictable flat-rate pricing. The enhanced network capabilities allow Family Service League to offer additional services to more than 6,000 additional individuals and families throughout Long Island.

Reaching More Consumers, Collaborating and Connecting Communities

Due to unprecedented growth in employees, volunteers and individuals served, Family Service League needed more bandwidth to properly arm employees with the data collection and computing power required to do their jobs. They also needed the bandwidth to deploy smart applications to deliver improved care, more social service programs and enhanced personalized consumer attention across all of its family center locations. Family Service League evaluated five service providers, including the major national telecommunications companies, and identified Optimum Lightpath as their preferred provider.

"Five years ago, we were brought to a standstill. Our telecommunications system was maxed out and we couldn't support the number of users we were trying to put on the system or service any additional people in the community," said Larry Daniels, Director of Operations at Family Service League. "We received a glowing referral from a Nassau County, NY-based organization whose MIS Director advised us to go with Optimum Lightpath for their quality of service and all-fiber based Ethernet network. He was right. Choosing Optimum Lightpath was a no-brainer."

Smart Benefits with Fast, Seamless Installation of Fiber-To-The-Business

Optimum Lightpath quickly migrated Family Service League to their all-fiber optic network, doubling the number of people who have email, enabling all 550 employees to access computer workstations, increasing agency-wide efficiencies with richer voice, Internet and data services, and instituting much-needed redundancy, security and disaster recovery measures. As a result, Family Service League was able to offer even greater value, leveraging significantly increased bandwidth to provide smarter services to both internal and external communities -- all with the simplicity of one provider, one bill and predictable pricing.

"Like all businesses today, non-profits are focused on efficiency and reliability," said Dave Pistacchio, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Optimum Lightpath. "Optimum Lightpath is dedicated to stimulating the smart community of businesses, people and organizations that are more efficient, flexible and strategic, and able to deliver more results for less. We believe that being a part of the community is critical to understanding what a business needs and how it works -- and we are dedicated to supporting and building a smart community of businesses in the metropolitan NY area."

Family Service League has been selected by Optimum Lightpath as its Customer Spotlight of the Month for March 2009. Visit their website at www.fsl-li.org for more information.

Businesses interested in learning more about these new services and all of Optimum Lightpath's services can visit www.optimumlightpath.com or call 1-877-LIGHTPATH.

About Optimum Lightpath

Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), is an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet, voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the New York metropolitan area. Optimum Lightpath's Intelligent Enterprise Network is a highly reliable, resilient and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more than 3,700 route miles and is connected to more than 3,000 buildings. Exclusively focused on meeting customer needs in the world's largest business market for 20 years, Optimum Lightpath has been continually recognized for its high level of customer service. For 10 straight years, the New York State Public Service Commission has given Optimum Lightpath its Commendation of Excellence. Optimum Lightpath has received many industry awards for innovation and leadership. For more information, visit www.optimumlightpath.com.

Media Contacts: Jennifer Abelson Abelson Group for Optimum Lightpath 917-445-4454 Jennifer@abelsongroup.com Charlstie Laytin Cablevision 516-803-2357 claytin@cablevision.com

SOURCE Optimum Lightpath

Source: PR Newswire

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