JERICHO, N.Y., BUSINESS WIRE -- Optimum Lightpath, the next-generation business broadband service provider of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), today announced that its network is now connected to 2,000 fiber-lit buildings in the New York metropolitan area. Optimum Lightpath achieved this milestone with the "lighting" of a Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (NYSE:CLI) building in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.

"One of Mack-Cali's objectives is to provide our tenants with the capacity, bandwidth and speed of fiber connectivity," commented Christopher DeLorenzo, vice president of leasing, Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. "Adding Optimum Lightpath's all-fiber network to this building allows us to accomplish this objective." ...

For Optimum Lightpath, the significance of lighting 2,000 buildings is underscored by the fact that fully fiber optic connections are not generally available to the large number of businesses and branch offices in suburban areas. According to Vertical Systems Group, a networking industry market research firm, direct "local loop" fiber connectivity to commercial buildings with more than twenty employees nationwide has been measured at 11.7 percent....

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