page_title: Lexent Metro Connect
section_title: 111 Eighth Avenue NYC
hierarchical_section_title: Lexent Metro Connect / List of Points of Presence (POPs) / 111 Eighth Avenue NYC
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking northwest at 111 Eighth Avenue, former Inland Freight Terminal, now serving East Coast Google HQ and several other Internet-related tenants.
context_page_description: 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.
  The company was acquired by Lightower Fiber Networks in 2010.
  Lexent constructed and leased dark fiber networks for carriers, wireless service providers, service providers, financial and enterprise customers. Lexent also provided 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.
  Lexent's dark fiber network provided connectivity between regional carrier hotels, central offices, and Enterprise Buildings. The network included four river crossings over the Hudson River, Harlem River and East River, and spanned over 100 route miles of metro fiber.
context_section_description: Level 3, 3rd floor
  Switch and Data, 5th floor
  Telx (fka NYC Connect), 8th floor
  Telx (fka NYC Connect), 15th floor
caption: 111 8th Ave
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