page_title: Stealth Communications
section_title: Fiber distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Stealth Communications / Technology / Fiber distribution
caption_attribution_description: English: Stealth Fiber Crew installing a 1728-count fiber cable underneath the streets of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
context_page_description: Stealth Communications is an American fiber-based Internet service provider, installing and maintaining its own fiber optic network throughout New York City. Stealth began rolling out its Gigabit Internet services in late 2013 to businesses throughout Manhattan, using in-house employees to lay its own fiber-optic cabling. In July 2015, City of New York and Stealth announced a $5.3 million public/private partnership to expand fiber broadband into Brooklyn and Queen's Industrial Business Zones. As of May 2019, the company reported to have connected hundreds commercial properties with fiber, over 73 fiber route miles.
context_section_description: Stealth utilizes an underground conduit system for placing its fiber-optic cables, that is owned and maintained by Empire City Subway. Once their fiber-optic cable reaches the closest manhole to the building, Stealth pulls the fiber-optic cable through existing conduits or builds a new conduit into the building. In certain cases due to the conditions of the conduit system, conduits are clogged or collapsed often causing costly re-routing by lengthy distances and construction of entirely new conduits.
caption: Stealth Fiber Crew installing dark fibre cable underneath the streets of Midtown Manhattan, New York City
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