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Lightpath Opens New Office in Miami Central Business District

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

NEW YORK and MIAMI, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, 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.

Key Points: 
  • Lightpath's new Miami office houses operations, customer service, and sales to support continued growth in the area.
  • Lightpath continues to aggressively invest in the Miami region since announcing its entrance into the market in late 2022.
  • This target includes a dense network of brand-new, subterranean fiber throughout the Central Business District as well as connectivity to four critical data centers in the area.
  • "The Miami business community is growing rapidly and Lightpath is seeing the resulting demand for enterprise-grade fiber connectivity.

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

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

The services provide customers with direct, secure, all-fiber connectivity to AWS with bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps.

Key Points: 
  • The services provide customers with direct, secure, all-fiber connectivity to AWS with bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps.
  • Lightpath launches Cloud Connect for AWS with service options for direct connectivity to Amazon Web Services.
  • Direct, fiber-based services to cloud providers improves overall data throughput and end-user experiences, while also increasing network security by not utilizing the public Internet.
  • Lightpath, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), is offering a complete cloud management portfolio that will give customers fast, flexible access to the cloud, in addition to:
    With this AWS Direct Connect certification, Lightpath offers direct access to all AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Lightpath Announces Enhanced National Long-Haul Network

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

NEW YORK, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, 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. 

Key Points: 
  • Lightpath customers can choose bandwidth options up to 100 Gbps, in the form of a wavelength service or switched Ethernet service.
  • This enhanced long-haul network will address those needs, while adding the ability to connect them locally - all in a single bundle from Lightpath, with Lightpath support standing behind it," commented Chris Morley, CEO of Lightpath.
  • Lightpath customers can now easily connect in-and-out of Miami and have access to the entire Lightpath network of over 20,000 route miles of fiber connecting over 13,500 service locations.
  • Lightpath's Miami network will connect diversely to the Lightpath network through Atlanta and Dallas.

Doug Turtz Named as Chief Executive Officer of Xchange Telecom and Skywire Networks

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Xchange Telecom ("Xchange") and Skywire Networks ("Skywire"), which deliver high-speed internet, voice, and unified communication services to residential and commercial customers across the New York City area, announced today the appointment of Doug Turtz as Chief Executive Officer. Turtz, whose appointment is effective immediately, joins Xchange and Skywire on the heels of the company's acquisition by NOVA Infrastructure in November of 2022.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Xchange Telecom ("Xchange") and Skywire Networks ("Skywire"), which deliver high-speed internet, voice, and unified communication services to residential and commercial customers across the New York City area, announced today the appointment of Doug Turtz as Chief Executive Officer.
  • Turtz, whose appointment is effective immediately, joins Xchange and Skywire on the heels of the company's acquisition by NOVA Infrastructure in November of 2022.
  • The ability to leverage its extensive fixed wireless network, in addition to traditional delivery mechanisms, allows Xchange and Skywire to reach many underserved areas and accelerate customer activation timelines," said Turtz.
  • Today, Xchange and its commercial business, Skywire, provide connectivity to more than 2,000 lit buildings, across 50 neighborhoods.

LightPath Technologies, Inc. CEO, Sam Rubin, Discusses Innovative Applications For its Proprietary Black Diamond(TM) Glass Lenses with The Stock Day Podcast

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Thursday, January 5, 2023

"I came to LightPath after spending my whole career in the optics and photonics industry," said Rubin.

Key Points: 
  • "I came to LightPath after spending my whole career in the optics and photonics industry," said Rubin.
  • "I chose LightPath because I felt as though it was under utilized in terms of its capabilities and technologies," he shared.
  • "How do you plan on leveraging your proprietary Black Diamond™("BD6") chalcogenide-based glass lenses to induce customers to partner with you on higher value projects?"
  • Rubin then discussed the Company's Black Diamond™ glass, which allows designers to utilize a variety of optical applications while minimizing the use of crystal glass.

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

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, 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.  

Key Points: 
  • Major wireless carrier is catalyst to expand Lightpath's already dense network in NY region by 300+ miles of new fiber.
  • Manhattan alone will see over 50 route miles of new network, including express fiber routes up and down the borough.
  • "5G wireless network deployments require incredibly dense fiber networks to backhaul and aggregate the massive bandwidths that they support.
  • Expanding our fiber footprint in New York Metro to accommodate 5G is going to bring our network to thousands of new organizations," explained Chris Morley, CEO of Lightpath.

Lightpath Completes Network Build Marking Entrance into Princeton, NJ

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, today announced the completion of a new, 54-mile build of its all-fiber network in Princeton, NJ that marks its entrance into the market.

Key Points: 
  • Princeton customers have access to the entire Lightpath network of over 20,000 route miles of fiber connecting over 13,500 service locations, including over 75 data centers.
  • "The entrance into the Princeton market brings our network to one of the densest regions of New Jersey, while also connecting this new market to the rest of the Lightpath network," stated Doug Dalissandro , Chief Revenue Officer for Lightpath.
  • Princeton area customers gain access to the entire Lightpath network, including access to all major cloud providers, data centers, and seven northeast cable landings stations.
  • Lightpath is revolutionizing how customers connect to their digital destinations by combining our next-generation network with our next-generation customer service.

Lightpath Announces Reaching Major Milestone of 2,000 Wireless Sites Across its Network Footprint

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

NEW YORK, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider that is revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, today announced it has reached the milestone of 2,000 connected wireless towers. This milestone comes as Lightpath has more than doubled its number of on-net wireless sites in the last 12 months, including securing its first wireless customer in the Greater Boston region. Carriers continue to choose Lightpath as they densify their 5G site deployments in preparation for tomorrow's additional 5G applications.

Key Points: 
  • This milestone comes as Lightpath has more than doubled its number of on-net wireless sites in the last 12 months, including securing its first wireless customer in the Greater Boston region.
  • Additionally, Lightpath offers carriers geographically diverse routing options and unique POPs (points of presence) that enhance the reliability of network design.
  • Lightpath offers carriers a unique combination of network density, customized connectivity options, reliability, and support," explained Phil Olivero, CTO of Lightpath.
  • "Lightpath is uniquely positioned to support wireless carriers in our markets, which is why so many carriers are choosing us."

Lightpath Announces New 300-Mile Diverse Route Between Ashburn, VA and New York Metro

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

This 300-mile route is geographically diverse from existing Lightpath routes between New York and Ashburn, VA, offering customers distinct paths to and from the regions.

Key Points: 
  • This 300-mile route is geographically diverse from existing Lightpath routes between New York and Ashburn, VA, offering customers distinct paths to and from the regions.
  • Lightpath will offer flexible bandwidth options along the route up to 800 Gbps optical transport.
  • "Our new Ashburn route is extremely important to many of our customers who need reliable connectivity between these major technology centers.
  • Offering a geographically diverse route between New York and Ashburn is a perfect complement to the routes we already offer between these regions," commented Phil Olivero, Lightpath CTO.

Lightpath Announces Major Expansion of its Boston Metro Network

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

The additional 75 route miles of network brings the total size of the Lightpath network in the Boston metropolitan area to more than 200 route miles.

Key Points: 
  • The additional 75 route miles of network brings the total size of the Lightpath network in the Boston metropolitan area to more than 200 route miles.
  • The Boston West expansion includes over 75 miles of new, high-count fiber along the I-90 corridor between Boston and Marlborough, planned in two phases.
  • "As Lightpath continues to invest in the Greater Boston market, this latest network expansion will serve major business centers to the west of the city, while also adding access to critical data centers along the path," commented Chris Morley, Lightpath CEO.
  • This Boston West expansion is Lightpath's fourth significant investment in the Boston Metro market in nine months and further signifies the company's commitment to the region.