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LightEdge Solutions company history timeline

1996

LightEdge opened its doors back in April of 1996 as Lighthouse Communications.

LightEdge was founded back in 1996 as the Midwest’s premier Internet Service Provider out of Des Moines, Iowa.

The company then went on to commission its first data center facility in 1996.

2003

From there, OnRamp built its first data center in 2003 that delivered 2N power to their customers.

2006

As Des Moines continues to be a booming hub for technology companies and data centers, LightEdge was proud to be the first company to build a data center facility in Altoona, IA in 2006.

2007

LightEdge was the first to build a data center in Altoona, IA back in 2007.

2008

In 2008 LightEdge was purchased by the Anschutz Investment Company.

2010

In 2010, OnRamp began to heavily focus in on compliant cloud and colocation offerings.

2013

A year later in 2013, OnRamp opened its data center in Raleigh, NC. It was a strategic move towards redundancy as the facility is located on the Eastern United States power grid, in addition to their presence on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid, and away from the coast.

2014

Finally, in 2014 the construction on OnRamp’s second data center facility in Austin was completed.

2016

Harry Smith with The Today Show came to check out SubTropolis in 2016 given the buzz around being home to some extremely rare Hollywood footage, massive food distributors, and the Cloud.

2017

In July of 2017, LightEdge opened its second Altoona, IA data center.

2018

In August of 2018, LightEdge’s Professional Services team branched out to form a separate entity.

The 16,925 square-foot facility was originally constructed in 2010 and sits on 4.18 acres of land. It was retrofit in Spring of 2018 to complement LightEdge’s other data center facilities across the Midwest.

2019

From now until January 1st, 2019, OnRamp will operate as OnRamp- A LightEdge Company.

Our CEO, Jim Masterson, was awarded CEO of The Year at the 2019 Prometheus Awards presented by the Technology Association of Iowa.

2020

We’d love to talk through your organization’s goals for the remainder of 2020 and beyond, and even take your team on an exclusive data center tour.

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