Business, government bring fiber to Selbyville Industrial Park

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The Selbyville Industrial Park, thanks to the efforts of a fast-growing company and government, is getting high-speed fiber-optic access.

The industrial park in southern Delaware had previously relied on cable internet as its main provider, with DSL as the only choice for back ups.

Businesses without internet redundancy in the industrial park have lost their internet connection completely between two and six days per year and those on DSL back-up suffered from slow speeds.

When E Revolution Ventures learned of an existing fiber-optic line that runs along U.S. Route 113 on the Maryland side and stops at the Delaware border, the company approached the Maryland Broadband Cooperative (MDBC) about utilizing the connection.

MDBC, a non-profit organization, works with local communities to provide an advanced fiber-optic broadband network throughout rural areas in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

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E Revolution obtained a proposal from Bay Country Communications, a “last-mile” service provider and broadband retailer, to stretch the fiber-optic cable from the Delaware line and install it in the industrial park.

The negotiations included a clause that provides for access to the fiber-optic line for all businesses throughout the industrial park.

E Revolution Ventures worked with Town Manager Bob Dickerson, and spoke with other businesses in the industrial park such as Chrome World, Spaceport Support Services, and Arrow Safety Device Co., among others,.

When the proposal was presented to the Town of Selbyville, the town supported the idea, and offered to pay for 50 percent of the more than $14,700 installation cost. The Town of Selbyville also reached out to Sussex County, which agreed to fund the remaining percent.

“We are proud to be part of bringing the latest technology to the industrial park,” said Bob Dickerson, Selbyville Town Manager. “We appreciate the investment E Revolution Ventures has made in our community along with the other park businesses. This investment in fiber-optic will certainly be a value-added benefit to park businesses and help secure a lasting relationship with our community.”

The new fiber-optic line will be capable of providing broadband upload and download speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps, and will have 99.9 percent reliability.

E Revolution Ventures, an ecommerce retailer that relies heavily on reliable internet access, gaining such stability will be a great source of relief. Internet is required for almost every aspect of day-to-day business.

An internet outage, or even a slow connection speed involves not only a stoppage of business, it brings steep losses in productivity for over 150 employees.

“We are very excited to bring fast, reliable internet service into the Selbyville Industrial Park.” said Ed Timmons, CTO of E Revolution Ventures. “We are an internet business, so when our internet goes down, we can’t do business. Bringing Maryland Broadband Cooperative’s high-speed, fiber-optic broadband network to Selbyville is a huge win for the community and I believe it will attract even more high-tech businesses to our area. We appreciate the Town of Selbyville and Sussex County for their support – they immediately saw the benefit and worked quickly to get this project started.”

E Revolution Ventures is a data-driven e-commerce company using smart algorithms to track and sell millions of products across more than a dozen product categories online.

Originating from brick and mortar roots, E Revolution Ventures was recently ranked 13th among the fastest growing e-commerce businesses in the United States in Internet Retailer magazine’s list of the top 500 e-commerce businesses.

It was the third 3rd fastest growing company in Delaware with sales growth from 2010 to 2013 of 1050 percent. E Revolution Venture’s 2013 revenue was $43.3 million, and the company expects to maintain its current high-speed growth rate through 2014.

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