Government organizations are faced with daunting IT challenges. FirstLight can help.
Organizations need IT that connects public servants with constituents, secures confidential data, and makes data and apps accessible to team members. One provider does it all: FirstLight.
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FirstLight for State and Local Government: By the Numbers

FirstLight supports 600 State or Local Government Entities

FirstLight’s Fiber Network has over 25,000 miles of fiber optic connectivity, connecting dozens of leading institutions for Internet, WAN, and Cloud Connectivity

FirstLIght has 15 data centers throughout the region, offering private data suites and flexible options for primary or secondary locations

FirstLight operates a dedicated SLED team in six Northeast & Mid-Atlantic states, ensuring that you’ll always have someone to provide the best service for your organization
How Can FirstLight Help Your Organization?

25,000+ miles of fiber mean that FirstLight can find routes and pathways to create a redundant network between your organization and our data centers, cloud providers and the Internet.

We offer the robust Internet connections your organization needs to enable a high quality working environment.

FirstLight has data centers across the Northeast that can provide the perfect home for your primary or secondary sites.

Whether you’re in need of low latency connectivity to a hyperscale provider like AWS or Azure, or whether you want regional cloud computing resources utilizing the FirstLight cloud, we’ve got you covered.

Protect your organization from ransomware, downtime events or other potential data loss incidents by using FirstLight’s cloud solutions.

As a Cisco Premier Partner, our engineers are experts at managing networks, SD-WAN, firewall, routing, switching, as well as Cisco Collaboration solutions, security solutions (like DNS protection) and more. Our cloud & data center engineers can help you manage your server infrastructure, your cloud workloads or your backup & disaster recovery strategy.

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White Paper: A Government Guide to Preventing DDoS Attacks
A Definitive Guide to Understanding, Preventing & Mitigating DDoS Attacks
Case Study: New Hampshire Judicial Branch
New Hampshire State Government Selects FirstLight for Internet and Data Center Services
White Paper: Disaster Recovery for Government
Creating a Solid Disaster Recovery Plan for Government
White Paper: SD-WAN for Government
5 Things Government Organizations Should Know About SD-WAN
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