Cloud Connectivity & Hybrid Infrastructure The route between your sites is the variable.
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Latency You Can Measure
Predictable latency on routes we own and engineer. Because we control the physical route, the latency between your endpoints is a measured number we can show you, not a claim about determinism.
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One Fabric, Many Clouds
Connect your data centers, colocation and cloud on-ramps over one private network that is dense in the markets where you operate, with a single owner accountable for the segment we deliver.
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Physically Diverse, One Provider
On-net routes engineered for physical path separation that reduces single points of failure, owned and operated by the team that built them.
The variability you’re paying to remove
Hybrid workloads do not sit in one place.
They span on-premises systems, colocation and multiple clouds, and the path between them is usually leased and stitched together from several carriers.
Latency is inconsistent, and when it moves you cannot see why, because no single provider owns the path end to end. The diverse route you contracted for cannot be confirmed, for the same reason.
For a trading engine, or an inference pipeline pulling data across sites in real time, that’s the cost you’re carrying.
How Lightpath approaches it
Latency tracks distance, and we own the route
- We own, build 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. Because we own and engineer the physical route, the latency on an on-net route between data centers in the New York metro and New Jersey is a measured number we put in front of you. The same holds for the route into a cloud on-ramp inside our footprint. Where your sites extend beyond it, we deliver over Type 2 and coordinate the carrier, and we scope latency figures to the on-net routes we measure.
One private network across your data centers, colocation and the cloud
- Dedicated Wavelengths and Private Optical carry your traffic between facilities and into cloud on-ramps, with direct presence in 190+ on-net data centers. Cloud Connect delivers private paths to AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, including US Gov’t ExpressRoute, the Azure on-ramp used for FedRAMP and CJIS-governed workloads. You get one Lightpath contract and one escalation path for the segment we deliver.
Capacity at the right layer, with diverse routes underneath
- 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 past that as your volumes grow. Underneath, physically diverse on-net routes reduce single points of failure on the paths you depend on.
Engineers who own your routes
- When you are on our network, you reach the engineers who design and operate it directly. No offshore tiers, no ticket queues. With financial backing from Optimum, we keep investing in route density across the markets we serve.
Working with partners in cloud
Lightpath is the transport that carries your traffic to the partner’s on-ramp. We own the fiber underneath it. The cloud provider runs its own product; we run the segment that reaches it. 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.
One contract and one escalation path cover the segment we deliver, so you stop managing a separate last-mile vendor for every path.
Built on these products
| Category | Product | Bandwidth | When to use it | |
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| Connectivity | Wavelengths | 10G to 400G (client interface) | Dedicated Layer 1 transport for low-latency, point-to-point paths between data centers, sites and cloud on-ramps | |
| Connectivity | Private Optical | 1Gbps to 800 Gbps | Wave-based private network linking your sites, colocation and on-ramps into one fabric | |
| Connectivity | Dark Fiber | Unlimited (customer managed) | When you want to own and operate your own optics end to end | |
| Industry Apps | Data Center Connect | 20 Mbps to 800 Gbps | High-capacity interconnect between data centers and colocation facilities | |
| Industry Apps | Cloud Connect | Hosted 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps; Dedicated 1/10/100 Gbps | Private on-ramps to AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Equinix Fabric | |
| Industry Apps | Lightcube | 3 to 15 kW/rack | Edge colocation at fiber nodes, to place compute close to the route | |
| Managed Services | Optical Encryption | 10 Gbps and above | Layer 1 in-flight encryption for sensitive datasets | |
| Managed Services | Advanced Proactive Monitoring | N/a | 24/7 network health monitoring |
Do not take the latency and diversity claims on faith. Ask us to prove them.
In a route review we walk your team through the actual fiber topology for your routes, the measured latency between your endpoints, the service-level agreement (SLA) terms where applicable and the escalation model that names who owns your circuit at each stage.
Request a route review
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The route between your sites is measurable. Ask to see the measurement, then talk pricing.
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