AI & High-Performance Workloads
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Owned Fiber, Dense Where You Operate
Proximity, on-net paths between data centers, cloud on-ramps, and campuses in our markets. Fewer handoffs because Lightpath owns and operates the route.
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Built Where Fiber Isn’t Yet
When a facility or AI campus needs fiber that doesn’t exist, we build the lateral. Most providers resell what they lease. Lightpath builds.
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Diverse Routes, One Owner
Physically diverse on-net routes that reduce single points of failure, with capacity that scales as your data volumes climb. One team owns the routes you’re on.
Why the Network is the New Bottleneck
For years the network was the utility nobody re-examined: sized once and left alone while compute and storage got the attention.
Then data turned into a persistent, tier-1 workload. Training sets and model checkpoints move between data centers, regions and clouds, inference gets pushed out to the edge, and all of it collides with the backups and everything else already on the wire.
The network connecting those sites is now the constraint. Usually it is leased or stitched together from several carriers. Capacity can’t grow as the workload grows. Performance varies route to route. And the route diversity you were sold is impossible to verify, because no single provider owns the path.
Owned fiber changes that: one provider, dense in the markets where your infrastructure runs, with one team accountable for the routes you’re on and coordinating anything beyond them.
How Lightpath approaches it
Owned routes, dense in your markets
- We’ve built and operate more than 12,100 unique route miles across 11 metro markets: the New York metropolitan area, Long Island, New Jersey, Southern Connecticut, Boston, Eastern Pennsylvania, Ashburn, Miami, Columbus, Phoenix and Atlanta. That footprint includes 190+ on-net data centers and subsea landing stations and direct presence in the interconnect facilities your traffic routes through. Where your sites extend beyond it, we deliver over Type 1 & 2 and coordinate with the carrier so you keep one point of contact.
Built ahead of the market
- In the Columbus data-center market we’re building a new high-fiber-count, fully underground network, fiber that wasn’t there before. That is how we reach a data center or AI campus that sits beyond our existing routes.
Capacity at the right layer
- We hand off dedicated wavelengths up to 400 Gbps at the client interface, on a network engineered for 800 Gbps and above on the line side. Per fiber pair and conduit, the ceiling climbs well past that as your volumes grow. Eight subsea cable landing stations extend the reach offshore.
Wave or Ethernet, your call
- When you want a pinned, predictable path, dedicated Wavelengths hold the same physical route every time. When you would rather add a site as a node on the Ethernet network you already run, Ethernet self-heals across our footprint, point-to-point or any-to-any, at lower cost, trading a little latency for reach and resilience.
Engineers who own your routes
- When you’re on our network, you reach the engineers who design and operate it directly. No offshore tiers, no ticket queues. We keep investing in route density across the markets we serve.
Working with partners in the AI and cloud space
Lightpath is the transport that carries your traffic to the partner’s on-ramp. It rides to the cloud; it doesn’t replace the cloud provider’s product. Cloud Connect delivers private paths to:
- AWS Direct Connect
- Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute & Gov’t ExpressRoute
- Google Cloud Interconnect
- Oracle FastConnect
- Equinix Fabric
You get one Lightpath contract and one escalation path for the segment we deliver, instead of a separate last-mile vendor for every path.
On the facility side, we’re present in Equinix, Digital Realty, and Markley Group across Boston, Ashburn, Chicago, Miami, and Secaucus.
What we do best with partners: we own the fiber beneath the on-ramp, so the segment you hand us has a single owner.
Built on these products
| Category | Product | Bandwidth | When to use it | |
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| Connectivity | Wavelengths | 10G–400Gbps | Dedicated Layer 1 transport, data-center-to-data-center and site-to-site | |
| Connectivity | Dark Fiber | Unlimited | When you want to own and operate your own optics end to end | |
| Connectivity | Private Optical | 1G-800Gbps | Wave-based private network across your sites | |
| Connectivity | Ethernet (E-Line / E-LAN) | 10Mbps-10Gbps | Self-healing Layer 2, point-to-point (E-Line) or any-to-any (E-LAN). Add a site as a node on the Ethernet network you already run, at lower cost, when you can trade a little latency for reach and resilience | |
| Industry Apps | Data Center Connect | 20 Mbps–800 Gbps | High-capacity interconnect between facilities | |
| Industry Apps | Landing Station Connect | Up to 800 Gbps | Subsea reach for global data movement | |
| Industry Apps | Cloud Connect | Hosted 50 Mbps–10 Gbps; Dedicated 1/10/100 Gbps | Private on-ramps to AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Equinix Fabric | |
| Industry Apps | Lightcube | 3–15 kW/rack | Edge colocation at fiber nodes | |
| Managed Services | Optical Encryption | 10 Gbps+ | Layer 1 in-flight encryption for sensitive datasets | |
| Managed Services | Advanced Proactive Monitoring | N/a | 24/7 network health monitoring |
Don’t take the ownership and diversity claims on faith. Verify them.
We’ll walk your team through the actual fiber topology for your routes, the circuit-level SLA terms where applicable and the escalation model that names who owns your circuit at each stage.
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The fiber between your sites shouldn’t be the variable you can’t see.
Start with the routes. Then talk pricing.
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