Amrep Tackles Automobile Industry Bottom Line by Connecting to AFS Atlanta Network

Amrep, Inc., has upgraded to American Fiber Systems’ (AFS) Atlanta Ethernet-over-fiber network as part of an overall program to support its stringent customer delivery standards and to meet business continuity standards. The manufacturer and packager of specialty chemical products now connects to the diverse and reliable AFS infrastructure to serve customers who require a no-down-time, next day delivery, ordering process, such as car dealerships and service centers.

Amrep is one of the few manufacturers to respond to dealership demand for 100% uptime feature for ordering systems, a program that requires the diverse and secure nature of the AFS Atlanta backbone. The improved reliability and speed of the AFS network connection significantly improves the Amrep customer buying experience, and in turn, greatly affects Amrep’s bottom line.

“Our customers expect fast turnaround so they can keep their promises to their customers,” said Kevin Beattie, VP Supply Chain and Information Technology, Amrep. “They order from us, in part, because we’ve put a system in place to make sure they don’t have to break that promise — they can rely on us. And we can rely on AFS.”

In addition to supporting customer needs, Amrep uses the AFS network to support its own business continuity plan to ensure the avoidance of future unplanned downtime.

“In the past, not only was bandwidth size a challenge for enterprise businesses, but the reliability of the connection as well,” said Mike D’Angelo, Senior VP Sales and Marketing at AFS. “Everyone knows how frustrating it can be when you experience delayed response times when you’re trying to order a product. Amrep puts their customers first, and that’s why they’ve connected to the Atlanta network to ensure the ordering and delivery process runs smoothly 100% of the time.”

American Fiber Systems provides metropolitan networking infrastructure, dark fiber and transport services to carriers and large and mid-sized enterprises in ten markets nationwide. AFS network also offers long haul interstate transport between Las Vegas, Reno, Boise, and Salt Lake City. For more information on partnering with AFS, visit www.americanfibersystems.com.

American Fiber Systems (AFS) provides metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber and Ethernet transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city’s most important points of communications presence; Internet Service Provider (ISP) and data center locations; Inter-exchange “carrier-hotels”; wireless providers and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed more than 1.2 million miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Atlanta, Ga.; Boise, Idaho; Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City, Kan./Mo.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minn.; Nashville, Tenn.; Reno and Carson City, Nev.; and Salt Lake City, Utah. AFS has more than 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable market teledensity of more than $9 billion in annualized telecommunications services. AFS is a privately held venture-backed company led by Dave Rusin who shares insights on telecommunications trends and news on his blog at www.telecomstraightshooter.com.