FirstLight Delivers High-Capacity Fiber Route Connecting Albany and Boston for Major Hyperscaler

ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstLight Fiber, a leading provider of high-capacity fiber optic network solutions across the Northeast, today announced a new agreement to deliver high-capacity, diverse connectivity to a major hyperscaler along one of the most strategically important corridors in the Northeast. The agreement provides a high-fiber-count route spanning 240 route miles between the Albany, New York and Boston, Massachusetts metro areas, supporting the customer's mission-critical data transport needs across the region.

The route gives the customer the scale, diversity, and reliability required to support demanding, latency-sensitive workloads between two of the Northeast's key metro markets. Albany serves as a primary regeneration and colocation point along the route, reinforcing the city's role as a key interconnection hub and giving the customer additional flexibility as its infrastructure needs continue to grow.

" This agreement reflects the growing demand we're seeing from hyperscale organizations for high-capacity, diverse, low-latency connectivity between major Northeast markets. We're proud to be the provider hyperscalers trust to deliver mission-critical capacity at this scale."

— Lorenzo Leuzzi, Chief Revenue Officer, FirstLight Fiber

The agreement builds on FirstLight's established route between Albany and Boston, a key corridor in the company's network strategy, and reflects the broader momentum FirstLight is seeing from hyperscale organizations seeking high-capacity, diverse connectivity across the Northeast.

FirstLight's Northeast network spans 20,000 route miles across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, providing carrier-grade transport, dark fiber, unified communications, security and colocation services to hyperscalers, enterprises, carriers, and public sector customers throughout the region.

About FirstLight

FirstLight is a regional digital infrastructure provider that owns and operates a high-performance fiber network across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Headquartered in Albany, New York, the company delivers business-grade connectivity, data center, cloud, security, and unified communications services for organizations with mission-critical IT needs.

FirstLight's owned fiber network spans more than 20,000 route miles and reaches over 125,000 serviceable locations, enabling low-latency, reliable connectivity for enterprise and carrier customers. By controlling its network infrastructure, FirstLight is able to deliver consistent performance, faster issue resolution, and tightly integrated services across fiber connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, cloud, data center, and unified communication solutions.

FirstLight serves a broad range of customers, including national wireless and wireline carriers, healthcare systems, financial institutions, manufacturers, research organizations, educational institutions, and local and state governments throughout the region.

For more information about FirstLight, visit www.firstlight.net or follow the company on X, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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