Lightpath —
Owned Metro Fiber Across the Northeast & Florida

Lightpath is the regional fiber operator of choice for businesses inside its footprint — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida. With 30+ years of network operations and 15,000+ lit buildings across those markets, Lightpath competes on the dimensions where regional fiber providers structurally outperform national carriers: fast install in lit buildings, dense metro routes that yield low-latency point-to-point and Wave services, and a sales and engineering organization that knows its territory street-by-street. Strongest fit is enterprise tenants in NYC, North Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, Boston metro, and Florida who need dedicated fiber bandwidth at credible service levels.

ELINE is metro Ethernet point-to-point connectivity from 20Mb to 10,000Mb — Layer 2 transport between two enterprise sites, usually within a metro or between a customer's HQ and data center. Wave is 1G to 800G optical wavelength service — a dedicated lambda on Lightpath's DWDM network for high-bandwidth, low-latency point-to-point use cases (data-center interconnect, broadcast contribution, financial trading paths). Dark Fiber is the customer-managed option — Lightpath leases unlit fiber strands, the customer lights them with their own optics, ideal for organizations that want full control over capacity and protocol. The three services scale from megabits to multiple terabits while staying inside Lightpath's owned network.

Yes. Lightpath provides a full business-voice portfolio — Hosted Voice for cloud PBX, SIP Trunking for organizations bringing their own PBX or migrating to UCaaS, PRI for legacy interconnect, and Business Lines for traditional analog use cases that have not yet been retired. Lightpath also offers UCaaS as an integrated communications stack and Managed WiFi for enterprise wireless inside the customer premises. This matters for buyers who would otherwise need a separate voice or UCaaS vendor — Lightpath can deliver fiber transport, internet, voice, and UCaaS on a single contract with one operator on the hook for SLA.

Lightpath Cloud Connect provides direct, private connectivity from the customer's premises into the major cloud providers — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud — over Lightpath's metro fiber rather than over the public internet. That means lower latency, predictable bandwidth, and a security posture that does not depend on public-internet egress. Lightpath DDoS Protection sits at the edge of the metro network and absorbs volumetric attacks before they hit the customer's last-mile circuit — useful for financial services, e-commerce, and gaming customers whose business depends on always-on internet presence. Both services are delivered on the same fiber the customer is already buying.

Lightpath's SD-WAN is a managed-overlay service designed for multi-site customers in the Northeast and Florida footprint who want to combine Lightpath's owned fiber with broadband or LTE failover at branch sites. The SD-WAN is built on commercial vendor stacks (typically Fortinet or VMware/VeloCloud) and delivered as a fully managed service — Lightpath provisions, monitors, and supports the overlay alongside the underlying transport. The result is a network where headquarters and major sites run on Lightpath fiber, smaller branches can run on third-party broadband, and the application performance, security policy, and routing decisions are uniform across all sites.

No. Your contract is signed directly with Lightpath — Fibi is not a party to the agreement and Lightpath's published pricing applies. In most cases Fibi can negotiate equal or better terms because Lightpath operates inside an aggressive Northeast and Florida fiber market. Fibi sources competitive quotes from Verizon Fios Business, Spectrum Enterprise, Crown Castle Fiber, and Zayo for the same building, so you see how Lightpath compares before signing. Fibi's advisory work is provider-funded, so the comparison adds no cost to your business while ensuring Lightpath's pricing and SLAs are validated against the broader market.