Ashburn

A direct route into the world’s largest interconnection market.

Ashburn is where the internet meets itself. Lightpath gives Northeast enterprises a direct, owned route into Data Center Alley without building a campus there themselves.

Why Ashburn is the center of the digital world

Loudoun County’s Data Center Alley is the largest data center market in the world and one of the densest interconnection and cloud on-ramp ecosystems anywhere. For enterprises and cloud-adjacent operations, the value is reach: getting into Ashburn cleanly, on a path you control.

Data Center Interconnection
  • Hyperscale and cloud platforms

  • Cloud-adjacent enterprise and AI workloads

  • Federal and government-adjacent operations

What Lightpath brings to Ashburn

Lightpath reaches Ashburn over a direct long-haul route from the New York metro, giving customers owned-path access into Data Center Alley and its interconnection density.

  • A direct route from the New York metro into the Ashburn interconnection ecosystem
  • High-capacity transport built for cloud, AI and data-intensive workloads
  • Customer handoffs to 400G, with line-side optical capacity to 800 Gbps and beyond
  • Owned-path reach into Data Center Alley and its cloud on-ramps
Data Center Connect

Built for IT leaders and the engineers who vet it

Whether you are reaching cloud on-ramps, connecting to a hyperscale deployment or extending into Northern Virginia, Lightpath gives you a controlled path into the market.

For the network engineer

  • A direct New York metro to Ashburn long-haul route into Data Center Alley
  • Reach into the interconnection and cloud on-ramp density of Data Center Alley
  • Line-side optical capacity to 800 Gbps and beyond for data-intensive transport
  • Access to AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute

Don’t take our word for it. Validate it.

Request a route review and see the path your data would take from the New York metro into Ashburn, including the points of diversity along the way.

AI and Data Infrastructure