Optimum Lightpath Connects 2,000th Fiber-Lit Building To Its New York Metro Area Network
Jericho, NY - Optimum Lightpath, next-generation business broadband service provider of Cablevision Systems Corporation, recently announced that its network is now connected to 2,000 fiber-lit buildings in the New York metropolitan area. Optimum Lightpath achieved this milestone with the "lighting" of a Mack-Cali Realty Corporation building in Woodcliff Lake, NJ.
"One of Mack-Cali's objectives is to provide our tenants with the capacity, bandwidth and speed of fiber connectivity," commented Christopher DeLorenzo, vice president of leasing, Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. "Adding Optimum Lightpath's all-fiber network to this building allows us to accomplish this objective."
The Optimum Lightpath network now comprises more than 2,500 route miles of fiber optic cable (nearly 128,000 miles of actual fiber) within the New York metropolitan area, encompassing New York City, and the suburban areas of Long Island, Westchester County, Northern New Jersey and Southern Connecticut.
"Optimum Lightpath's success in surpassing this milestone is a direct result of the strong demand by medium-sized and larger businesses for full fiber optic connectivity, and the Mack-Cali building is the latest example of the advantages of the technology we can provide," said Dave Pistacchio, executive vice president and general manager, Optimum Lightpath. "Our business strategy is to bring Metro Ethernet services to businesses wherever they're located, and this full-market approach has fueled Optimum Lightpath's strong growth in each of the last two years."
For Optimum Lightpath, the significance of lighting 2,000 buildings is underscored by the fact that fully fiber optic connections are not generally available to the large number of businesses and branch offices in suburban areas. According to Vertical Systems Group, a networking industry market research firm, direct "local loop" fiber connectivity to commercial buildings with more than twenty employees nationwide has been measured at 11.7 percent. However, Optimum Lightpath is changing that imbalance by utilizing its state-of-the-art, all-digital optical network to bring the benefits of fiber optic connectivity to businesses located outside Manhattan.
Metro Ethernet simply and effectively provides organizations with the ability to link multiple locations, run bandwidth-intensive applications and converge multiple types of content over a single network. As a result, this emerging communications technology has the potential to transform how businesses operate and compete in today's economy.
SOURCE: Optimum Lightpath