Lightpath, a 100 percent fiber infrastructure company operating 12,100 route miles of AI-grade networks across 11 U.S. metro markets, has announced a major network expansion supporting deployments for leading national wireless service providers.
The project includes 265 route miles of new fiber construction and spans more than 2,400 macro cell tower locations across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. The tower backhaul and aggregation solution uses Lightpath’s existing high-capacity core backbone infrastructure to deliver 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps aggregation links to multiple customer endpoints.
The development continues Lightpath’s strategy which includes investing with strategic customers, deploying fiber infrastructure at scale and enabling that infrastructure to serve additional tenants. More than half of these endpoints are served on existing fiber infrastructure representing second, third and in some instances fourth tenants.
“This expansion demonstrates our ability to invest deeply in dense fiber infrastructure, in this case expanding within the NYC metropolitan area with follow-on commercialization via lease-up of those assets across multiple customer verticals and use cases,” said Lightpath CEO Chris Morley. “Wireless backhaul at this scale is one part of a broader lease-up story playing out across our footprint, and the economics of layering additional tenants onto owned fiber are difficult to replicate.”
Customers in the expansion areas will have access to Lightpath’s full portfolio of all-fiber connectivity solutions, including optical transport up to 800 Gbps, Ethernet, dedicated internet access, dark fiber and private networks.
This announcement follows Lightpath’s recent network expansions in Greater New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Greater Miami, Phoenix and Columbus as the company continues building AI-grade fiber infrastructure for carriers, hyperscalers and enterprises across the U.S.
