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Lightpath Dedicated Fiber in New Jersey

Dedicated fiber on wholly owned infrastructure, with a published uptime SLA and bandwidth to 100 Gbps.

What is Lightpath and how is it different from regular business internet?

Lightpath sells dedicated fiber internet access over wholly owned infrastructure, which means the bandwidth is reserved for one customer rather than shared with other subscribers in the area. It offers symmetrical bandwidth from 20 Mbps to 100 Gbps, backed by a published 99.9 percent uptime SLA and multiple redundant routes. That is a different product class from business broadband: it costs substantially more and is bought by organizations where an outage stops revenue rather than causing inconvenience. New Vision Technology Group (NVTGI) is a telecom and cloud communications agent based in Red Bank, New Jersey, and New Jersey is one of Lightpath's named metro markets.

A bundle of fiber optic strands carrying blue light

Dedicated access, and who it is actually for

Most businesses do not need dedicated fiber, and NVTGI will say so. Shared business broadband from Optimum, Verizon or Comcast serves the large majority of small offices well at a fraction of the cost.

Dedicated access earns its price in a specific situation: when an hour offline costs more than the monthly difference. That is a calculation rather than a preference, and it is worth doing honestly before spending the money.

What Lightpath actually provides

  • Unshared bandwidth, symmetrical, from 20 Mbps to 100 Gbps

  • A published 99.9 percent uptime SLA

  • Wholly owned fiber with multiple redundant routes rather than resold capacity

  • Burstable options for businesses with peaks

The availability question

New Jersey is one of Lightpath's markets, but dedicated fiber is delivered building by building. Whether your building is already lit is the single largest factor in both the price and the installation timeline. A building requiring a new fiber build is a construction project, not an activation.

Whether a building is already lit is checked premises by premises, and we do that before quoting.

Compare this against the other New Jersey business internet carriers we place, including AT&T Business and Spectrum Business.

Best suited for

Organizations where an internet outage stops revenue, and which need a contractual uptime commitment rather than a bill credit.

What you get

Unshared bandwidth

Capacity reserved for one customer, so neighboring demand does not affect performance.

Published 99.9 percent SLA

A contractual uptime commitment rather than a best-effort service level.

20 Mbps to 100 Gbps, symmetrical

Upload matches download across the whole range.

Often looked at together

Comcast Business Internet

Comcast Business logo

Widely available business cable and fiber, though coverage varies sharply by address in Monmouth County.

Optimum Business Internet

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The broadest business fiber footprint in Monmouth County, with no-contract options.

Verizon Business Internet

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New Jersey's incumbent carrier, with the broadest wireline reach in the state and symmetrical Fios fiber.

Explore our services

Business Phone Systems

Cloud VoIP, on-premise PBX, and SIP trunking from four platforms, matched to how your team actually works.

Internet Services

Business fiber, cable and dedicated access from six carriers, matched to what is actually available at your address.

Business Email Hosting

Microsoft 365 and Exchange email, from licensing through migration, without losing a message.

Meetings & Video Conferencing

Zoom, Teams and GoTo compared honestly — plus the conference room hardware to go with them.

Technology Consulting

Bill audits, office moves, and contract renewals — the work that happens around the services themselves.

Common questions

Yes — New Jersey is one of Lightpath's named metro markets, alongside the New York City area, Long Island, southern Connecticut and several others. Coverage within the state is building-by-building rather than blanket, because dedicated fiber is delivered to specific premises rather than broadcast across an area. Whether a given building is already lit determines both the price and the installation timeline, and the difference between a lit and an unlit building is substantial. We check whether your specific building is lit before discussing price or timeline.

Lightpath offers symmetrical bandwidth from 20 Mbps up to 100 Gbps on its dedicated fiber internet access product. The lower end of that range is deliberate: a business buying dedicated access at 20 Mbps is buying the uptime commitment and the unshared capacity rather than raw speed, and 20 Mbps of dedicated symmetrical bandwidth behaves very differently from 200 Mbps of shared cable. Burstable options are available for businesses whose demand peaks periodically.

Lightpath publishes a 99.9 percent uptime SLA on its dedicated fiber internet access, delivered over wholly owned fiber with multiple redundant routes and no shared infrastructure. In practical terms 99.9 percent permits roughly 8.8 hours of downtime across a year. As with any carrier, the more useful figure alongside it is the repair-time commitment — how quickly service is restored once a fault is confirmed — which is a separate contractual term. We confirm the service level terms on your quote rather than relying on a published figure.

Dedicated internet access across the industry generally runs several times the cost of shared business broadband — published industry ranges put dedicated access at roughly $300 to $1,000 or more per month against $60 to $300 for standard business connections. The price reflects unshared capacity and contractual commitments rather than higher speed, and a dedicated connection at a modest speed can cost more than a fast shared one. We quote dedicated access per building, because the price depends heavily on whether the building is already lit.

Usually not, and that is the honest answer. A twenty-person office doing email, cloud applications and VoIP is generally well served by business fiber or cable from Optimum, Verizon or Comcast at a fraction of the cost. Dedicated access becomes worth it when the connection failing stops revenue directly — a business running its own customer-facing systems, a practice where scheduling and records are entirely cloud-based, or an operation where staff cannot work at all when the link drops. The test is what an hour of downtime costs, not how many employees there are.

It depends entirely on whether the building is already lit. Where Lightpath fiber is already in the building, provisioning is comparatively quick. Where it is not, delivering dedicated fiber is a construction project involving route surveys, permits, landlord agreements and physical build, and it runs on a timeline of months rather than weeks. If you are considering dedicated fiber for a new location, establish which case applies before committing to the space. Whether your building is already lit is the first thing we check, because it changes both the quote and the schedule.

Lightpath and Optimum Business serve different needs despite both tracing back to Altice. Optimum Business is shared broadband, priced for ordinary businesses, and is the right answer for most small offices. Lightpath is dedicated, unshared fiber with a contractual uptime commitment, priced for organizations that cannot absorb downtime. If you are weighing them, the deciding question is whether you need a contractual service level or simply need a fast connection — and if the answer is the latter, Optimum will cost considerably less for comparable everyday performance.

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