Type Private Founder Hugh O'Kane Sr | Headquarters New York, NY, USA Founded 1946 | |
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Industry Telecommunications
IT Services Area served New York and New Jersey and surrounding areas Key people Ray LaChance - President and CEO
Hugh O'Kane Jr. - Executive Vice President
Kevin O'Kane - Executive Vice President Products Dark Fiber
Fractional Dark Fiber
Interconnectivity Between Buildings
Project Management
Implementation | ||
Lexent Metro Connect was a New York City based neutral telecommunications provider that owned, operated, built and maintained its own dark fiber network in New York, Northern New Jersey, and surrounding areas. Based in New York City, Lexent provided services in the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, as well as in Northern New Jersey. It had 150 fiber route miles and served over 200 commercial buildings.
Contents
- List of Points of Presence POPs
- 32 Avenue of the Americas NYC
- 60 Hudson Street NYC
- 75 Broad Street NYC
- 85 Tenth Avenue NYC
- 111 Eighth Avenue NYC
- 325 Hudson Street NYC
- 601 West 26th Street NYC
- 1095 Avenue of the Americas NYC
- 165 Halsey Street Newark NJ
- 300 Kennedy Blvd East Weehawken NJ
- 275 Hartz Way Secaucus NJ
- 755 Secaucus Rd Secaucus NJ
- 5851 West Side North Bergen NJ
- Background and origins
- References
The company was acquired Lightower Fiber Networks in 2010.
Lexent constructs and leases dark fiber networks for carriers, wireless service providers, service providers, financial and enterprise customers. Lexent also provides engineering and project management support to carriers looking to build telecommunications networks in New York as well as consultation on fiber networks in various metropolitan areas around the United States.
Dark fiber is capable of Fiber-optic communication at any speed, and offers unlimited bandwidth. By bypassing the "Carrier Cloud,” dark fiber is virtually free from outside interference, interception or interruption, providing small businesses to large service providers a secure network. Lexent's dark fiber network provides diverse connectivity between regional carrier hotels, central offices, and Enterprise Buildings. The network includes four river crossings over the Hudson River, Harlem River and East River, and spans over 100 route miles of metro fiber. Lexent’s network is accessible from any area of Manhattan, as well as Northern New Jersey. Lexent can interconnect between Carrier Hotel Facilities, as well as interconnect between Carrier Hotel Facilities and enterprise building locations.
List of Points of Presence (POPs)
Lexent Metro Connect has 27 PoPs in 13 different carrier hotel buildings and fiber access to over 100 enterprise buildings throughout Manhattan, the Bronx and Northern New Jersey including:
32 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
60 Hudson Street, NYC
75 Broad Street, NYC
85 Tenth Avenue, NYC
111 Eighth Avenue NYC
325 Hudson Street, NYC
601 West 26th Street, NYC
1095 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
165 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ
300 Kennedy Blvd East, Weehawken, NJ
275 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ
755 Secaucus Rd., Secaucus, NJ
5851 West Side, North Bergen, NJ
Background and origins
Lexent Metro Connect LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lexent Inc., was formed in 2002 and awarded a NYC High Capacity Telecommunications Franchise with the non-exclusive right to construct, operate and maintain local high capacity telecommunications networks and services in the New York City metro market. Lexent's sister company, Hugh O'Kane Electric Co Inc. was founded in 1946 by Hugh O’Kane Sr. as an electrical company specializing in services to the graphic arts and printing industries. Today, the two companies operate independently to serve the New York telecommunications market. The Lexent companies are privately owned by the O’Kane Family.