Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
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Capacity With Room to Grow
Scale a link or light a new facility on the path you already run, without rebuilding the interconnect. When a single wavelength handoff isn’t enough, the same route can carry more on dark fiber, where you run the optics.
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Diversity You Can Verify
Physically diverse on-net routes reduce single points of failure between your facilities. Because Lightpath owns and engineers the path, we show you where the routes separate instead of asserting it.
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Turned Up Fast
When you add a facility, we turn up the interconnect on owned fiber. On select dark-fiber routes in the New York metro, Greater Boston and Greater Miami, RapidPath turns up in as few as fiftenn days.
The part you depend on most, and see least
Interconnection carries replication, backup, failover and the traffic between compute and storage, so when one degrades, the workload feels it.
Usually those links are leased and stitched across several carriers. Capacity can’t grow without re-architecting, and the route diversity you were sold can’t be verified. One outage becomes a finger-pointing exercise across providers.
When you need a new interconnect, you wait.
How Lightpath approaches it
Owned routes, dense where the data centers are
- We own, build and operate more than 12,100 route miles across 11 metro markets, with our deepest interconnect density across the New York metropolitan area, New Jersey, Long Island, Southern Connecticut, Boston, Eastern Pennsylvania, Ashburn and Miami. We are on-net in 190+ data centers and 17,500+ service locations, including the major interconnect hubs your traffic already passes through, among them 60 Hudson Street and 111 Eighth Avenue in New York, 165 Halsey Street in Newark and 350 Cermak in Chicago. The footprint is expanding into Columbus, Phoenix and Atlanta. Where a facility sits beyond our on-net routes, we deliver over Type 2 and coordinate the carrier so you keep one point of contact. Capacity at the right layer, with room to grow: We hand off dedicated wavelengths up to 400 Gbps at the client interface, on a network engineered for 800 Gbps and beyond on the line side. Per fiber pair and conduit the ceiling climbs past that, so you add capacity on the routes you already run instead of re-architecting. Eight subsea cable landing stations extend interconnect beyond the metro.
Capacity at the right layer, with room to grow
- We hand off dedicated wavelengths up to 400 Gbps at the client interface, on a network engineered for 800 Gbps and beyond on the line side. Per fiber pair and conduit the ceiling climbs past that, so you add capacity on the routes you already run instead of re-architecting. Eight subsea cable landing stations extend interconnect beyond the metro.
Diverse routes, turned up fast
- Physically diverse on-net routes reduce single points of failure between facilities, and because Lightpath owns the path, we can show you where they separate. On select dark-fiber routes in the New York metro, Greater Boston and Greater Miami, RapidPath turns up new interconnect in as few as fifteen days.
Engineers who own your routes
- When you’re on our network, you reach the engineers who design and operate it. No offshore tiers, no ticket queues between you and the fix. Backed by Optimum, we keep investing in route density across the markets we serve.
Private Paths to Major Cloud Providers
On the cloud and exchange side, Cloud Connect delivers private paths to AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute (including US Gov’t ExpressRoute), Google Cloud Interconnect, Oracle FastConnect and Equinix Fabric.
You get one Lightpath contract and one escalation path for the segment we deliver. Where we are present in the interconnect facility, we own the fiber into the on-ramp, so the segment you hand us has a single owner.
On the facility side, we are present in Equinix, Digital Realty and Markley Group across Boston, Ashburn, Chicago, Miami and Secaucus.
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 Networks | 1G-800Gbps | Wave-based private network across your sites | |
| Industry Apps | Data Center Connect | 20 Mbps–800 Gbps | High-capacity interconnect between facilities | |
| Industry Apps | RapidPath | Dark Fiber (customer managed) | Fast-turn-up inter-data-center dark fiber within fifteen days or less in select metros. | |
| 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 | Landing Station Connect | Up to 800 Gbps (line side) | Subsea reach for global data movement | |
| 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. Ask us to prove them.
We’ll walk your team through the fiber topology for your specific interconnect routes, showing where your paths are physically diverse down to the conduit and building entrance and where they share infrastructure. You’ll see the service-level agreement (SLA) terms where applicable and the escalation model that names who owns your circuit at each stage. Where latency matters on a route, we show the measured round-trip time on the on-net path you will run.
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The interconnect between your facilities shouldn’t be the part you can’t see. Start with the routes, then talk pricing.
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