Long Haul

Across Town. Across the Country.

Lightpath owns dense fiber across our metro markets and the high-capacity routes that feed long-haul. Those routes are your on-ramp, carrying traffic onto Lightpath fiber and, beyond our footprint, across a partner network that reaches almost anywhere in the country.

Lightpath by the Numbers

12,100+

route miles

190+

on-net data centers

18,00+

service locations

11

metro markets

Routes We Own End to End

New York City to Boston Express Route

  • A Lightpath bypass route between metro New York City and metro Boston.
  • Bypass one or both cities, or connect directly into them.
  • Wavelengths up to 400 Gbps.
  • From this path, route traffic on to long-haul destinations including Ashburn, Miami and Chicago.
Solution Brief

New York City to Ashburn Diverse Route

  • A path between New York City and Ashburn, one of the largest data center markets in the country, running diverse from the I-95 corridor.
  • Wavelengths up to 400 Gbps, with dark fiber available on the west route.
  • Built for low-latency routing.
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Why Owned Fiber Matters

Most carriers sell you a route they lease from someone else. When a fault opens, the carrier you bought from, the one that leased them the fiber and the one underneath that all coordinate before anyone finds it.

Lightpath builds and operates the metro fiber and the routes that carry your traffic toward long-haul. One owner, one call, one team that built the route.

Where a route runs on our partner network, Lightpath still holds the relationship and the service-level agreement, so you deal with one company, not a chain of carriers.

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Long-Haul Reach

From our owned routes, your traffic reaches long-haul destinations across the Northeast, Midwest and South. Our Columbus to Chicago route brings Lightpath long-haul connectivity into the Chicago market.

Beyond our footprint, our partner network extends reach to major markets including Atlanta and Dallas, and to almost anywhere in the country.

Network Expansion

What Runs on the Network

  • Wavelengths from 1 Gbps to 800 Gbps.
  • Ethernet from 20 Mbps to 100 Gbps.
  • Dedicated Internet Access.
  • Rapidpath Dark Fiber on select routes – on owned routes you get the full range.

Beyond our footprint, availability varies by route, so we scope every long-haul order to the specific path.

Products Overview

Built For

  • Hyperscalers and AI infrastructure: Direct interconnect between data center markets for cloud and AI workloads, including the NYC-Ashburn corridor.
  • Carriers and wholesale: Diverse East Coast routing and data center access for carriers and international providers.
  • Financial services: Low-latency routing between financial hubs and the data centers that serve them.
  • Multi-metro enterprise: One network across your sites, with a single owner on the routes we hold.
Industries Overview

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