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FirstLight Fiber Adds 36,000 Miles of Fiber in New York

FirstLight Fiber extended its network by adding 36,000 fiber miles in New York's Westchester, Rockland and Orange counties, the company said in a news release. The company constructed the addition in response to market and customer demand to expand its…

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offerings closer to New York City, the release said. The network is designed to be in close proximity to more than 4,000 cell tower and enterprise locations in order to serve businesses along the fiber route, it said. FirstLight Fiber is a facilities-based provider operating in New York and northern New England. The newly constructed network can support dark fiber, ethernet and wavelength services from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps as well as Internet access, the release said. With this expansion, FirstLight’s fiber network now spans 260,000 fiber miles in New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, it said.