Lightpath, an all-fiber, infrastructure-based connectivity provider revolutionizing how organizations connect to their digital destinations, announced it has closed the transaction to acquire substantially all assets of United Fiber and Data (UFD). The company also introduced LightCube Edge Data Centers, which will be first deployed along its NYC-Ashburn strategic network route.
These acquisitions elevate Lightpath's position in the digital infrastructure industry and expand its reach in the New York Metro and Ashburn markets. The additions include the geographically diverse, 323-mile NYC-Ashburn route, as the company continues to amass new and unique route options between these markets, along with 79miles of metro fiber in New Jersey and New York City, and approximately 250 new commercial service locations in Manhattan. Lightpath now provides over 1,500 enterprise and data center service locations in Manhattan alone, a five-time increase over the last three years.
NYC-Ashburn Route: Geographically Diverse and Lowest Latency
Lightpath's New York City to Ashburn network route is geographically diverse from typical network routes along the I-95 corridor and offers the industry's lowest latency between the nation’s largest population center and the world’s largest data center and cloud ecosystem. This route supports services ranging from dark fiber to wavelengths of up to 800 Gbps.
"This route represents a unique opportunity for customers to connect critical markets with diversity, latency management, and soon the addition of edge compute facilities," explained Tim Haverkate, EVP of Major Infrastructure Solutions, Lightpath. "Lightpath has seen surging demand on this route, with nearly 25% of the cable under contract, a 3.5x increase since the transaction was initially announced. Further, we are engaged in active conversations with 20 customers resulting in an opportunity pipeline that would oversubscribe the route as it exists today."
Lightpath customers can connect to almost any data center in the Ashburn region, with connectivity to over 140 data centers across its footprint. Lightpath can route customers from any on-net data centers in New York Metro or Boston Metro to Ashburn utilizing this route; it can also deliver routing options along the I-95 corridor to support services on the NYC-Ashburn route.
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