Lightpath News

Lightpath Opens New Office in Miami Central Business District

Lightpath announced the opening of a new office in Miami located at 150 West Flagler Street. The office will house operations, customer service, and sales staff to directly support customers and continued growth in the Miami area, including ongoing network expansions.

Lightpath Announces Direct, All-Fiber Connectivity for Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

Lightpath announced today the launch of Lightpath Cloud Connect for Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute as part of its Cloud Connect service offerings. The service provides customers with direct, secure, all-fiber connectivity to Azure, improving the throughput to cloud services while also increasing network security by avoiding the public Internet.

Lightpath Announces All-Fiber Solutions for Direct Connectivity to Amazon Web Services

Lightpath officially announced today the launch of Cloud Connect for AWS consisting of multiple service options for direct connectivity to Amazon Web Services through Amazon’s Direct Connect locations in in Secaucus NJ, Boston MA, Ashburn VA, and soon in Miami FL. The services provide customers with direct, secure, all-fiber connectivity to AWS with bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps.

Lightpath Continues Rapid Expansion in Miami

Lightpath today announced an update on its previously released entrance into the Miami market and the rapid buildout of its new, all-fiber network throughout the region, including having 65-route miles of network in place and 4 data centers on-net by the end of 2023, demonstrating the company's commitment to the Miami region.

Lightpath Announces Enhanced National Long-Haul Network

Lightpath announced today the launch of an enhanced national long-haul network that will offer high bandwidth wavelength and Ethernet services between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Miami. Lightpath customers can choose bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps, in the form of a wavelength service or switched Ethernet service.

Lightpath Announces Major New York Metro Network Expansion, Adding 300+ Route Miles of Fiber

Lightpath today announced a series of significant network expansions across the New York Metro region, in total adding over 300 route miles to Lightpath’s already dense network in the area. These latest expansions were driven by the 5G network rollout of a major wireless provider, and will also serve thousands of additional enterprise, education, and government customers.  

Lightpath Announces Addition of Inge Smidts, John Ghirardelli, and Nick Brown to its Board of Managers

Lightpath today announced the addition of Inge Smidts, John Ghirardelli, and Nick Brown to its Board of Managers, effective October 19, 2022.  

Lightpath Announces GRESB Score of 96 and 5-Star Rating

Lightpath received a 5-Star Rating and a score of 96 on the 2022 GRESB Infrastructure Asset Benchmark Report. The score placed Lightpath first among all participating private data transmission companies in the data infrastructure sector in the Americas.

Lightpath Enters the Miami Connectivity Market With 135-Mile All-Fiber Network Throughout Region

Lightpath today announced its entrance into the Miami market for fiber connectivity solutions with a 135-mile, all-fiber network throughout the Miami Metro region. Miami marks the second major east coast market that Lightpath has entered over the past 16 months, following Boston in June of 2021.