Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider serving the northeast U.S., is expanding its state-of-the-art, all-fiber network in northern New Jersey.

 

The company officials said that the network expansion will add new routes and fiber density plus connectivity to data centers and financial exchanges while at the same time providing additional capacity and dark fiber from New York City, through New Jersey, up to the Hudson Valley.

 

According to the company officials, the network expansion will enable customers to access Lightower dark fiber and managed services for high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity in New Jersey data centers, financial exchanges and office buildings.

 

“With this network expansion, Lightower has increased connectivity, or added connectivity, to critical financial exchanges, data centers, and commercial buildings in New Jersey. This network expansion demonstrates Lightower’s ongoing commitment to dark fiber in addition to our managed high-bandwidth services,” said Rob Shanahan, president and CEO of Lightower Fiber Networks, in a statement.

 

Shanahan said that Lightower can now offer customers lit services and dark fiber solutions in New Jersey as well as solutions connected to other key locations in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Boston, or the rest of footprint.

 

“With this network expansion, Lightower adds new capacity and dark fiber inventory from New York City west into New Jersey and up into the Hudson Valley,” said Jason Campbell, senior vice president of engineering and operations.

 

Campbell said that the design complements the company’s existing routes heading east out of New York City to Long Island and to the north into Westchester.

 

He said that this flexibility allows Lightower to custom design competitively diverse routes, fully protected routes, or routes that avoid New York entirely.