Latency-Sensitive Applications
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Short Paths, Owned End to End
Latency tracks distance. Lightpath owns its metro routes and keeps building new fiber where others have stopped investing, so we can engineer the most direct on-net path between your sites, and build a shorter one when the route calls for it.
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Latency You Can Measure
We give you the measured round-trip latency on the actual route you will run. A fixed physical path produces a stable, repeatable latency profile, and you can verify it yourself.
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Diverse Paths, Disclosed Latency
Physically diverse on-net routes reduce single points of failure. We engineer your protect path and tell you its latency up front, so a protection event doesn’t surprise you. One team owns the routes you are on.
The constraint isn’t the compute
AI workloads rarely live in one building. Training data and model checkpoints move between data centers, regions and clouds, and the network connecting them becomes the bottleneck.
Usually that network is leased or stitched together from several carriers. Capacity can’t grow as the workload grows, and performance varies route to route.
The route diversity you were sold is impossible to verify, because no single provider owns the path.
How Lightpath approaches it
Owned, engineered routes in dense metros
- We’ve built and operate more than 12,100 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 17,500+ service locations. Where latency-sensitive work concentrates, in the New York metro area and into New Jersey, that density lets us engineer a short, direct path rather than detour around fiber we don’t have, and where a shorter route would help, we can build it.
Latency set at the physical layer
- Dedicated Wavelengths from Lightpath ride Layer 1 optical transport, the layer where your traffic runs on a dedicated path and avoids the queuing and contention of a shared, packet-switched network. 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, so capacity can grow without rerouting you onto a longer path.
Measured, not asserted
- Before you commit, we show you the route map and the measured round-trip latency on the on-net path you will run. For sites reached over Type 2, we coordinate the carrier and scope any latency figure to the segment we measure. We don’t put a number on the segment we don’t own.
Engineers who own your routes
- When you are on our network, you reach the engineers who design and run it. No offshore tier between you and the fix. Backed by Optimum, we keep investing in route density across the markets we serve.
Connect to industry leading cloud providers
On the cloud and exchange side, Lightpath 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.
Where we are present in the interconnect facility, we own the fiber into the on-ramp, so the low-latency segment you hand us has a single owner.
Built on these products
| Category | Product | Bandwidth |
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| Connectivity | Wavelengths | 10G–400Gbps |
| Connectivity | Private Optical | 1G-800Gbps |
| Connectivity | Dark Fiber | Unlimited |
| Industry Apps | Data Center Connect | 20 Mbps–800 Gbps |
| Industry Apps | Cloud Connect | Hosted 50 Mbps–10 Gbps; Dedicated 1/10/100 Gbps |
| Managed Services | Optical Encryption | 10 Gbps+ |
| Industry Apps | Lightcube | 3–15 kW/rack |
A latency figure is only as good as the route it was measured on. Ask us to prove ours.
We will walk your team through the fiber topology for your specific routes, the measured round-trip latency on each, 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 latency between your sites shouldn’t be a number you take on trust.
Start with the route and the measurement. Then talk pricing.
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