Testimonials

Voices from
the Field

Professional recommendations from colleagues, partners, and customers who have experienced firsthand what it means to work with someone who combines deep technical expertise with strategic business acumen.

"Lightning fast network deployment. A pleasure to work with."

On Stephen's network deployment capabilities

Daniel Lobanovsky

Infrastructure Executive

Digital Infrastructure

"I have been interacting with Stephen for a number of years and for the last few as my customer. I have always viewed Stephen as a strong and respected professional. More recently Stephen has been a great customer, so much so that we have recently developed more of a partner relationship with him."

On building a lasting professional partnership

Ed d'Agostino

Business Development Executive

Carrier Services

"Stephen provides creative and expert solutions around everything that he does. We had the pleasure of dealing with him (when I was running Voxel) at AMC, SKT, and some of his other ventures. You could always count on Steve to deeply understand the problem at hand and "do the right thing" and come through no matter what."

On creative problem-solving and reliability

Raj Dutt

Co-Founder & CEO

Grafana Labs

"Stephen's in depth knowledge and leadership in the area of wide area network design and implementation has helped my company complete several high profile data center builds on time and on budget. His consultative approach to the network design and engineering phase of the aforementioned projects was invaluable to my company. I highly recommend Stephen and Atlantic Metro to any IT executive who is faced with having to design a reliable wide area networking scheme for which uptime and proactive issue communication and problem solving is critical."

On data center network design and consultative approach

Mike Provost

Senior Director, Technology

The Vitamin Shoppe

"Stephen's unquestionable expertise and knowledge of product, service and application provided Rainbow Broadband unparalleled quality and service when we were building out our network."

On network build-out expertise

John LaFemina

Principal

Channel Communications, LLC

"I have had the pleasure of working with Stephen and his team at Atlantic Metro over the course of 8 years. During that time I my expectations were consistently surpassed in regards to all the services provided. Whenever called to the occasion, Stephen always proved to be quick thinking, knowledgeable and above all - very reachable and personable. I would highly recommend working with Stephen if you can."

On long-term partnership and exceeding expectations

Gary Yodowitz

Senior Systems Administrator

Ahead

"Stephen is an expert at mission critical Internet connectivity. We have been using his services for over 10 years!"

On mission-critical connectivity expertise

George Lee

Founder

Quick Deploying, Large Scale EV Charging

"Stephen is one of the most talented and insightful telecommunication technologist I know. He is a dedicated entrepreneur who has successfully founded and developed several telecommunications companies. He has a deep understanding of how to leverage rapidly evolving new technologies to benefit diverse markets and his low-latency, virtualization, and cloud-based offerings are industry leading solutions. Additionally his consummate focus on customer satisfaction is one of his underlying tenets for success."

On entrepreneurship and technological innovation

Bill Adiletta

IT Strategist

Bridgepointe Technology

"I literally trust Stephen with my livelihood. Atlantic Metro Communications hosts our 24/7/365 infrastructure. Stephen personally expertly helped us set up the network and has always been responsive to all requests big and small. When Sandy hit, his first priority was to his customers. Updates were honest and frequent. Unlike many other vendors he chose to not hide and immediately picked up the phone when I called him in the thick of the crisis. I am honored to be doing business with Steve."

On trust, crisis management, and customer-first values

Michael Yudin

Chief Platform Officer

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"My carrier relationships are not transactional. They are strategic assets built over two decades that consistently deliver access, speed, and commercial leverage that no cold RFP process alone can replicate."

— Stephen Klenert

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