Fiber infrastructure company Lightpath has expanded its dense NYC metropolitan fiber infrastructure network.

The expansion supports deployments for national wireless service providers and spans more than 2,400 macro cell tower locations across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.

The deployment expands on Lightpath's existing 12,100 route-mile fiber infrastructure.

Lightpath is adding 265 route miles of new fiber construction as part of the expansion, as it looks to deliver 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps aggregation links across the tower sites.

According to Lightpath, this expansion continues the company's investment with strategic customers, deploying fiber infrastructure at scale and enabling that infrastructure to serve additional tenants.

The company notes that more than half of these endpoints are served on existing fiber infrastructure, representing second, third, and in some instances fourth tenants.

"This expansion demonstrates our ability to invest deeply in dense fiber infrastructure, in this case expanding within the NYC metropolitan area with follow-on commercialization via lease-up of those assets across multiple customer verticals and use cases,” said Chris Morley, CEO at Lightpath.

“Wireless backhaul at this scale is one part of a broader lease-up story playing out across our footprint, and the economics of layering additional tenants onto owned fiber are difficult to replicate."

Lightpath notes that customers within these expansion areas will have access to the company's full portfolio of all-fiber connectivity solutions, including optical transport up to 800 Gbps, Ethernet, Internet access, dark fiber, and private networks.

The expansion builds on Lightpath's announcement last week that the company has secured an anchor award to construct new long-haul fiber infrastructure that will connect Columbus, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois.