Lightpath enhances Miami network, connecting the Hollywood Cable Landing Station
For more on Lightpath’s expansion efforts:
· Lightpath targets fiber-based AI opportunities in Columbus
· Lightpath responds to Phoenix's hyperscaler fiber demands
· Lightpath Miami targets dark fiber data center opportunities
· Lightpath sets new optical fiber network expansion and customer service course
Lightpath has expanded its Miami network to the Hollywood Cable Landing Station located at 460 NE 215th Street, Miami, fulfilling a need for a strategic anchor customer.
At this location, Lightpath will offer diverse, high-capacity connectivity options to the landing station, including dark fiber and wavelength services up to 800 Gbps.
The expansion will be completed in late 2025, bringing Lightpath's underground fiber infrastructure to over 80 route miles in the Miami metro area.
Tim Haverkate, EVP Major Infrastructure Solutions, Lightpath, said that the latest build is part of an ongoing expansion effort in the region. “We will continue to invest in Miami and South Florida to meet customer demand for connectivity to data centers, cable landing stations, and other digital destinations,” he said.
Targeting Miami
Miami has become a key expansion target for Lightpath’s fiber network.
Last October, the provider added connectivity to eight new data centers, 15 miles of new fiber network, and a new RapidPath dark fiber service to area data centers in the Greater Miami area.
The RapidPath service offers quick deployment of dark fiber between data centers.
RapidPath serves Miami area data centers and is available between New York Metro and Greater Boston data centers. Hyperscalers, enterprises, governments, and carriers can all benefit from RapidPath's pre-spliced dark fiber between data centers, which the provider claims offers provisioning in as fast as five days.
Lightpath offers RapidPath dark fiber between Miami data centers, with pre-spliced inter-data center fiber spans ready for rapid deployment.
By the end of 2024, Lightpath added eight new data centers, bringing them to 12 on-net data centers. Additionally, the company is building a new, 15-mile expansion of high-fiber count, subterranean network toward North Miami Beach and west to Miami Gardens.
Expanding multiple market reach
With AI-driven opportunities bubbling up, Miami is only one target of Lightpath’s fiber expansion efforts. Across its entire footprint, Lightpath connects to over 170 data centers and seven additional cable landing stations in the New York and New Jersey area.
The provider has also made inroads into the Phoenix and Columbus markets.
Lightpath’s Columbus network build will include 102 route miles of underground, multi-conduit systems with high-fiber-count capacity. The network will feature diverse connections to two strategic data center campuses located south of downtown Columbus and extend back into the metro corridor. Engineering and design of the network have already commenced, with completion scheduled for mid-2026.
Likewise, in Phoenix, Lightpath will build 230 route miles of underground, multi-conduit systems with a capacity for 20,000 fibers. The Phoenix network will connect 8 data center campuses and carrier hotel locations, with an additional 30+ data center campuses near the planned routes.
Within the Phoenix market, Lightpath will connect emerging data center ecosystems in Goodyear, Buckeye, Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, and Tempe, with additional connectivity to significant carrier hotels throughout the Phoenix Metro.
All these builds are about satisfying potential AI demands. In January, Lightpath announced $110 million in AI-related bookings for 2024, with a remaining demand pipeline of approximately $1 billion. Also this year, Lightpath announced the acquisition of United Fiber and Data (UFD) and its assets.
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