The deployment spans Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey, delivering 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps aggregation links across the tower sites. The expansion extends Lightpath’s existing fibre footprint, which currently covers 12,100 route miles across 11 US metro markets.

More than half of the end-points in the expansion are served on existing fibre infrastructure, with individual routes supporting second, third and in some cases fourth tenants. Lightpath said the multi-tenant model underpins the long-term economics of the deployment, with the company investing in infrastructure at scale and leasing capacity to successive customers across different verticals and use cases.

Chris Morley, CEO of Lightpath, said the expansion demonstrated the company’s ability to “invest deeply in dense fiber infrastructure” and described the wireless backhaul programme as “one part of a broader lease-up story playing out across our footprint.” He added that “the economics of layering additional tenants onto owned fiber are difficult to replicate.”

The announcement follows recent Lightpath network expansions in eastern Pennsylvania, Greater Miami, Phoenix and Columbus as the company continues to build out fibre infrastructure for carriers, hyperscalers and enterprise customers across the United States.

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