Lightpath Expands into Atlanta with High-Capacity Managed Bandwidth Services

TL;DR

• Lightpath has entered the Greater Atlanta market with high-capacity Managed Bandwidth services.
• Wavelength and IP Transit services are now available across 30 Atlanta-area data center campuses.
• Customers can access capacity from 10 Gbps to 800 Gbps per wavelength, with aggregate system capacity scaling into multi-terabit configurations.
• Lightpath’s Atlanta long-haul network hub connects to New York, Philadelphia, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas and Miami.

Atlanta has emerged as one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the country, with enterprises and hyperscalers requiring greater capacity to support AI workloads, cloud interconnection and large-scale data movement.

Lightpath is expanding its network footprint to meet that demand, entering the Greater Atlanta market with high-capacity Managed Bandwidth services across 30 data center campuses.

The expansion brings Lightpath’s Wavelength and IP Transit services to Atlanta-area customers, with capacity ranging from 10 Gbps to 800 Gbps per wavelength. Aggregate system capacity can scale into multi-terabit configurations, providing the high-capacity optical transport required by increasingly bandwidth-intensive workloads.

The new market also extends the reach of Lightpath’s national backbone. Lightpath operates a long-haul network hub in Atlanta with connections to New York, Philadelphia, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas and Miami. High-capacity managed connectivity is delivered over 100% underground fiber infrastructure to the 30 data center campuses served in the Atlanta market.

“Atlanta is one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the country, and demand for high-capacity managed bandwidth continues to accelerate,” said Chris Morley, CEO of Lightpath. “Entering this market connects this growing ecosystem to our national backbone, giving customers a direct path to the intensive capacity that AI and cloud workloads require.”

The Atlanta expansion is part of Lightpath’s broader metro expansion strategy, focused on entering and densifying major U.S. economic markets. It also strengthens the company’s presence in a market that is becoming increasingly important to AI and cloud growth.

For organizations operating within Atlanta’s growing data center ecosystem, the combination of local data center connectivity and access to Lightpath’s long-haul backbone provides a way to scale optical transport as workload requirements increase.

“Our customers need optical transport that scales with their workloads,” said Tim Haverkate, Chief Commercial Officer at Lightpath. “By pairing our long-haul backbone with high-capacity managed Wavelength and IP Transit services, we give Atlanta-area customers a single, trusted path to the bandwidth their businesses demand.”

With its entry into Atlanta, Lightpath continues to expand the reach of its AI-grade, all-fiber network, which now spans 12,100 route miles across major U.S. metro markets and supports high-capacity connectivity for cloud, hyperscale, data center and mission-critical enterprise workloads.

Read more in the press release here. 

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